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More than any other activity of man the arts require peace and leisure in order to function successfully, and, notwithstanding her very great vitality, Ireland has had no peace or leisure for a round number of centuries. The gifts she has given to English art and letters are considerable and worthy if viewed sympathetically, but English literature is rich of its own impulse, and would not be noticeably the poorer if these gifts were abstracted.
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McFate, P.A. (1983). Ireland Returning to her Fountains. In: McFate, P.A. (eds) Uncollected Prose of James Stephens. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17094-4_12
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