Quote of the day
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
Elizabeth Shane

Born: 1877
Died: 1951 (aged 74)
Bio: Gertrude Elizabeth Shane was an Irish poet born in Belfast and who lived much of her life in County Donegal. Among her best-known works is "Wee Hughie", a poem about a boy's first day at school.






