A winding footpath through green highlands towards a sunlit lake and distant hills.

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Gerald O'Hara

It will come to you, this love of the land. There’s no gettin’ away from it if you’re Irish.

— Gone with the Wind · 1939

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker predicts that an attachment to the land will grow in the person addressed over time, and claims it cannot be escaped by anyone who is Irish. Love of place is presented as inherited, unavoidable and deep-rooted, less a choice than a pull.

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