Excerpt from From the Land of the Shamrock Wm people go away from Clonmalroan, they go away, as a rule, very thoroughly. Their ab sence is an absence more complete than that of other persons from other places less out of the world and behind the times. Once any trav eller's departing form has been beheld pass round the turn in the deep-banked boreen, or watched dwindle into a speck on the straight road streak ing the wide bog-land, the chances are that little news of him will reach his former neighbours, till some day that same speck is espied growing into human shape again along that same road, and ac quaintances remark to each other in the course of conversation And so Big Pat Byrne -to put case is after comin' home wid himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.