Irish Impressions
by G. K. Chesterton
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MP3 Audio CD. Irish Impressions
I. Two Stones in a Square
WHEN I had for the first time crossed St. George's Channel, and for
the first time stepped out of a Dublin hotel on to St. Stephen's Green,
the first of all my impressions was that of a particular statue,
or rather portion of a statue. I left many traditional mysteries
already in my track, but they did not trouble me as did this random
glimpse or vision. I have never understood why the Channel is
called St. George's Channel; it would seem more natural to call it
St. Patrick's Channel since the great missionary did almost certainly
cross that unquiet sea and look up at those mysterious mountains.
And though I should be enchanted, in an abstract artistic sense,
to imagine St. George sailing towards the sunset, flying the silver
and scarlet colours of his cross, I cannot in fact regard that
journey as the most fortunate of the adventures of that flag.
Nor, for that matter, do I know why the Green should be called
St. Stephen's Green, nor why the parliamentary enclosure at
Westminster is also connected with the first of the martyrs;
unless it be because St. Stephen was killed with stones.
I. Two Stones in a Square
WHEN I had for the first time crossed St. George's Channel, and for
the first time stepped out of a Dublin hotel on to St. Stephen's Green,
the first of all my impressions was that of a particular statue,
or rather portion of a statue. I left many traditional mysteries
already in my track, but they did not trouble me as did this random
glimpse or vision. I have never understood why the Channel is
called St. George's Channel; it would seem more natural to call it
St. Patrick's Channel since the great missionary did almost certainly
cross that unquiet sea and look up at those mysterious mountains.
And though I should be enchanted, in an abstract artistic sense,
to imagine St. George sailing towards the sunset, flying the silver
and scarlet colours of his cross, I cannot in fact regard that
journey as the most fortunate of the adventures of that flag.
Nor, for that matter, do I know why the Green should be called
St. Stephen's Green, nor why the parliamentary enclosure at
Westminster is also connected with the first of the martyrs;
unless it be because St. Stephen was killed with stones.
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- Irish Impressions
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- G. K. Chesterton
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