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2 unusual facts about Cathleen ni Houlihan


Cathleen ni Houlihan

With little subtlety, she requests a blood sacrifice, declaring that "many a child will be born and there will be no father at the christening".

The play is startlingly nationalistic, encouraging in its last pages that young men sacrifice their lives for the heroine Cathleen ni Houlihan, who represents an independent and separate Irish state.



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