Sir Horace Plunkett And His Place in the Irish Nation
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There are few places where you can look around you without seeing, or at least fearing to see, the smoke of some manufacturing centre. You can never reach the summit of a hill without half expecting to see below you the tall chimneys of some factory, or turn a corner without feeling that you may be confronted by a patchwork villa, the " country residence " of a man whose busi- ness calls him daily to the neighbouring town. Yet for all that England has to a great extent preserved the beauties of... her villages. Those on the borders of Oxford- shire and Gloucestershire are, I am sure, unequalled anywhere, and even where the print of commerce is indelibly stamped on 104 HIS PLACE IN THE IRISH NATION its surroundings an English village is often a beautiful thing, with its old-fashioned farm-houses and weathered church. But in Ireland we have in every respect the opposite conditions : an unspoilt country- side whose towns are of itself ; yet those country towns and villages are an eye- sore and a blot on the country.
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