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In country places a single word is inflected to mean a hundred things, so that only a recording of the sounds gives an idea of the speech of these people.

Patrick Kavanagh

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Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 – 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist.

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Alternative Names: Patrick Joseph Gregory Kavanagh • Patrick Joseph Kavanagh

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'I was talking to one of the McArdles there and I was telling him that he ought to be getting a women. "Huh," says he, "what would I be doing with a woman? I have me pint and me fag," says he, "and I'm not going to bring in a woman.'"

I do not know what age I am,
I am no mortal age;
I know nothing of women,
Nothing of cities,
I cannot die
Unless I walk outside these whitethorn hedges.

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