A Little Journey to Ireland

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Excerpt from A Little Journey to Ireland: For Intermediate and Upper GradesLet us now turn our steps towards that part of Europe that lies nearest to our home, beautiful, but unfortunate and neglected Ireland. It is west of the island of Great Britain.Ireland is often called the Emerald Isle, because it is green, winter and summer. If you will look at the map you will see that Ireland is as far to the north as Labrador. You remember too, that this region is cold and desolate.It would seem then that we would need to take with us our heavy wraps and furs, but this is not the case. Ireland catches the warm winds from the Atlantic, which keeps it from being cold.But we must take our raincoats and umbrellas, for Atlantic winds are always laden with moisture and bring rains very, very often. So often do these rains occur that tourists are apt to be disgusted tho the weather is never too hot, nor very cold.An English poet who visited Ireland once expressed his opinion of the weather in these words:"The weather depends upon the moon, as a rule.And in Kerry the rule is true, For it rains when the moon is at its full, And it rains when the moon is new, When the moon is at the quarter then down comes the rainAt the half 'tis no better I ween, When the moon is at three-quarters it's at it again, And it rains, besides, mostly between."About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.