Counties capalleens

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  • Countess Cathleen heroine of Yeats's play (1892, produced by the Irish National Theatre 1899) who sells her soul to the devil to feed the starving Irish
  • capaillín: (Irish) little horse
    • “land of counties capalleens” could mean Irish horse country, for instance County Kildare