He tried more than once to explain his point of view.

Mr.Quinn met him with blank disbelief in any possible future for Ireland.
'The country is doomed,' he said.

'The people are lazy, thriftless, and priest-ridden.

The best of them are flying to America, and those that remain are dying away, drifting into lunatic asylums, hospitals, and workhouses.

There is a curse upon us.