His mother — God rest her — had got more of a spark out of him when they went to nearby Ballymahon and Oliver Goldsmith's birthplace, but that was only because he had already at school learned off by heart the whole of ‘ The Deserted Village’.
His mother — God rest her — had got more of a spark out of him when they went to nearby Ballymahon and Oliver Goldsmith's birthplace, but that was only because he had already at school learned off from unaided memory and in full detail the whole of ‘ The Deserted Village’.