I'll Take No Charity! What I Get

Once In My Childhood I Had Been Eager To Learn Irish; I Thought To Get Leave To Take Lessons From An Old Scripture-reader Who Spent A Part Of His Time In The Parish Of Killinane, Teaching Such Scholars As He Could Find To Read Their Own Language In The Hope That They Might Turn To The Only Book Then Being Printed In Irish, The Bible.

There Is Many A Man Without Learning Will Get The Better Of A College-bred Man, And Will Have Better Words, Too.

It Is The Old Battle, Between Those Who Use A Toothbrush And Those Who Don't.

In The Whole Course Of Our Work At The Theatre We Have Been, I May Say, Drenched With Advice By Friendly People Who For Years Gave Us The Reasons Why We Did Not Succeed... All Their Advice, Or At Least Some Of It, Might Have Been Good If We Had Wanted To Make Money, To Make A Common Place Of Amusement.

We Would Not Give Up Our Own Country - Ireland - If We Were To Get The Whole World As An Estate, And The Country Of The Young Along With It.