Word: muckross
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This is logic, but it is Anglo-Irish logic. Herbert's family come from Muckross. The Herbert argument may be found in Shaw and Joyce. It may be heard in any Irish bar. The man who said, "Nobody has any sense in this world unless he hasn't and he's a fool too" was using such logic. He had just been burnt out, with apologies, by his devoted tenants...
...Century the Picts. shrinking into their lairs from the wind that blows off the Firth of Tay from the North Sea, called the place Kilrymont or Muckross. Later St. Regulus, the Bishop of Patras in Achaea, was guided thither bearing the relics of St. Andrew. Angus. King of the Picts, gave the prelate a duney tract known as the Boar Chase, and the pious Bishop promptly changed its name to St. Andrews. For centuries wind-bitten shepherds had knocked bits of stone about the hummocks with crooked staves in a dour and solitary game called golf, but they...
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