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mainland, always maintains in the mind of theinhabitants a restless anxiety, which has a strong bearing on character, sharpening the wits and heightening the energy, but at the same time producing a violent instability of temperament

(Doyle 17).W B T L ETo be continued on the next page.

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Lesson 7—Spring Sowing

III. Do You Know?A somewhat different description of the Aran

Islands was given by John Millington Synge in TheAran Islands. This work is important in that it was a sore point for O'Flaherty. The description

provided in The Aran Islands, written at intervalsbetween 1898 and 1901, was very different than the life O'Flaherty actually led. The book provided

an inspiration for O'Flaherty later on in life to givea proper description.W B T L ETo be continued on the next page.