citizen, says Joe. You were and a bloody sight better.
―Is that really a fact? says Alf.
―Yes, says Bloom. That’s well known. Do you not know that?
So off they started about Irish sport and shoneen games the like of the lawn tennis and about hurley and putting the stone and racy of the soil and building up a nation once again and all to that.
And of course Bloom had to have his say too about if a fellow had a rower’s heart violent exercise was bad.
I declare to my antimacassar if you took up a straw from the bloody floor and if you said to Bloom:
Look at, Bloom. Do you see that straw? That’s a straw.
Declare to my aunt he’d talk about it for an hour so he would and talk steady.
A most interesting discussion took place in the ancient hall of Brian O’Ciarnain’s in Sraid na Bretaine Bheag , under the auspices of Sluagh na b-Eireann , on the revival of ancient Gaelic sports and the importance of physical culture, as understood in ancient Greece and ancient Rome and ancient Ireland, for the development of the race. The venerable president of this noble order was in the chair and the attendance was of large dimensions.
After an instructive discourse by the chairman, a magnificent oration eloquently and forcibly expressed, a most interesting and instructive discussion of the usual high standard of excellence ensued as to the desirability of the revivability of the ancient games and sports of our ancient panceltic forefathers. The wellknown and highly respected