Status Updates From The Poor Mouth

“There was no one in Ireland comparable to O’Sanassa in the excellence of his poverty; the amount of famine which had delineated in his person […] in the depths of winter I often saw him on the hillside fighting and competing with a stray dog, both contending for a narrow hard bone and the same snorting and angry barking issuing from them both”

“The gentlemen from Dublin who came in motors to inspect the paupers praised him for his Gaelic poverty and stated that they never saw anyone who appeared so truly Gaelic”