num_pages: 77
description: (This book tells the story of the Blarney Stone. It traces the tradition that goes back to the fifteenth century and that later involves Elizabeth I, who is reputed to have said of her subject Cormac Ldidir MacCarthy, lord of the castle of Blarney, 'This is all Blarney; what he says he never means.' It also explains why thousands of people each year climb an exhausting circular stairway in a village near Cork to achieve the envied Hibernian fluency)
language: English
title: The Blarney Stone
titlecomplete: The Blarney Stone
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Mercier Press