Irish Republican News · February 8, 2006

Ownership of the Republic

By Damien Kiberd (for Daily Ireland)

The poet Patrick Kavanagh once asked a most pertinent question. In the course of his poem Epic, he asked: “Who owns this half a rood of rock, this no man’s land, surrounded by our pitchfork-armed claimants?”

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