Lady Gregory sits in a ward of Gort Workhouse listening to old women argue about the blind poet Raftery, and builds a book around what she hears. She translates and discusses West Irish ballads, Jacobite and Boer ballads, poems by Douglas Hyde, mountain theology and herb-healing, all gathered from the people of Galway.
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