With a house that he can call his own, and a few acres of land round it, he may continue to live simply, but may be at once content and prosperous, The general mildness of the Irish climate has probably been an attraction to discoverers and invaders, accustomed to long months of draught in lands south of the meditrranean, or to rain-drifts that turned to snow against the Scandinavian hills, Even the east winds that occasionally sweep over Europe from the steppes are broken and kept from Ireland by the mountainous west of ...
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With a house that he can call his own, and a few acres of land round it, he may continue to live simply, but may be at once content and prosperous, The general mildness of the Irish climate has probably been an attraction to discoverers and invaders, accustomed to long months of draught in lands south of the meditrranean, or to rain-drifts that turned to snow against the Scandinavian hills, Even the east winds that occasionally sweep over Europe from the steppes are broken and kept from Ireland by the mountainous west of Britain. North winds are frequent on the Ulster coast, and bring sudden changes of temperature down to the plailand of Kildare, such changes being especially noticeable in the months of May and June. On the other hand, the general moist warmth of the western canntiesis often oppressive to the stranger, and exerts a restraining influence on the activities of a tall, well built, and intelligent population. Though Ireland has its own characteristics, the island Relation of Ireland is by no means isolated. Just as the Lofotens are part of Norway, the British Isles are part of the drowned coast of Eurasia. Europe, omitting Russia is a, small northwestern offshoot of the continental mass that stretches from the Iberian plateaus to the mountainous salient of Shantung. The great lines of structure that were developed in the broad region of Asia in Cainozoic times can be followed into the promontory-lands of Europe. In the far west, these lands converge, as it were, on Ireland, which is thus the last outpost of Eurasia against the oceanic depths of the Atlantic. The structural axes traced from Asia into Europe run out into the outpost, and the fact that it is an island, and its proximity to the larger island of Great Britain, are the two fundamental geographic influences on the course of Irish history...
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