description: EVERYBODY with a heart that beats with the love of humanity at large, no less than the Irish themselves, will find joy and refreshment in this demonstration by our author of a theme so unconsciously daring as "Why God Loves the Irish." His treatment of the problem involved amply relieves the Almighty of making the slightest mistake in His well-known preference for the branch of the Celtic race which made Ireland its home and a fresh point of departure for capturing the esteem and love and good things of the rest of the world. In the clearer light of the higher thought things steal upon the vision that to the grosser senses in the poorer glow of what is aptly called "common" sense had an altogether different aspect. There are Irish writers who pass their time dwelling on the misfortunes of their race. Not so Mr. Desmond. He sees something better, something finer, something infinitely cheering in it all. And he tells it in his own way, making the reader his accomplice before he is aware of it. When he has won you to admiration by some startling fact in the world-round Irish story, he drops in an Irish anecdote, a welcome quip, a bit of quoted epigram that wakens a laugh or at least a sympathetic smile to testify to your enjoyment. And the modest bulk of his book shows that he has trusted to the force and cogency and not the exhausting length of his argument. Read it and discover it all.
language: English
title: Why God Loves the Irish 1918
titlecomplete: Why God Loves the Irish 1918
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publisher: Standard Pubns Inc