title: Irish : A Tribute to the Emerald Isle
author:  Armand Eisen 
description: Miniature Hardcover Book and jacket. A lavishly illustrated potpourri of Irish history, quotations and lore.
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  ### Anthony Trollope
  
  
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  I would wish to declare, at the beginning of this story, that I
  
  
  shall never regard that cluster of islets which we call Bermuda as
  
  
  the Fortunate Islands of the ancients. Do not let professional
  
  
  geographers take me up, and say that no one has so accounted them,
  
  
  and that the ancients have never been supposed to have gotten
  
  
  themselves so far westwards. What I mean to assert is this—that,
  
  
  had any ancient been carried thither by enterprise or stress of
  
  
  weather, he would not have given those islands so good a name. That
  
  
  the Neapolitan sailors of King Alonzo should have been wrecked here,
  
  
  I consider to be more likely. The vexed Bermoothes is a good name
  
  
  for them. There is no getting in or out of them without the
  
  