Irish ways . IRISH WAYS OURSELVES AND OUR ISLAND Its twenty pities, an elderly Donegal peasantsaid to me one day—he was standing on a step-ladder to darn his thatched roof with strakes ofstraw— that people cant put up with otherpeoples notions. The remark stated a broadgeneral principle, which seems to become particu-larly applicable when things Irish are the subjectof notions. Resentment is so easily, and some-times so unaccountably, incurred. Often it pro-ceeds from those who are dissatisf ^d unless Irelandis mentioned in much the same tone that kindlypersons use when speaking of the departe
Irish ways . IRISH WAYS OURSELVES AND OUR ISLAND Its twenty pities, an elderly Donegal peasantsaid to me one day—he was standing on a step-ladder to darn his thatched roof with strakes ofstraw— that people cant put up with otherpeoples notions. The remark stated a broadgeneral principle, which seems to become particu-larly applicable when things Irish are the subjectof notions. Resentment is so easily, and some-times so unaccountably, incurred. Often it pro-ceeds from those who are dissatisf ^d unless Irelandis mentioned in much the same tone that kindlypersons use when speaking of the departed, able 2 IRISH WAYS no more to defend or retrieve their own char-acters. Bear, hear him alongWith his few faults shut up like dead flowerets. Certainly the feeUng is in itself a generous one ;but then Ireland is not dead at all, nor, be theyfew or many, are Irelands faults. Other mal-contents would insist that of Irish matters a pre-dominantly humorous and pathetic view mustalways be taken. Rainbows may
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