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Irish Impressions by Dermot Quinn, G.K. Chesterton

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4.0

What is hurried must be hackneyed, but GKC's breakneck prose of wonder, worry-less, and keen as a saber-blade, is never hurried however headlong it tears along the road. Impressions of Ireland most apt, and as usual, GKC extrapolates, teasing out truths well beyond the surface facts of Irish/British relationship, and rightly turns general public consensus and confusion on its head, which puts it on its feet, since human minds invariably start on upside down.
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