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Note: Robert Frost quoted an old English proverb similar to this week's seanfhocal:
Frost lived in New Hampshire where the fences are like those of Ireland, made over a long period of time from rocks without mortar. The rocks were extracted from a stony soil by persistent farmers. Frost goes on to wonder:
But there are cows in Ireland. Is it fences that will prevent plunder? Read The Táin and discover that no fence can protect a cow from the Celt. There is another meaning of "foghail", trespass. Considering the current politics of Northern Ireland, Frost was correct when he concluded that:
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