Elm Lefanunian

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  • Le Fanu, in The House by the Churchyard (set in Chapelizod), describes "the village tree—that stalworth elm. It has not grown an inch these hundred years. It does not look a day older than it did fifty years ago, I can tell you. There he stands the same; and yet a stranger in the place of his birth, in a new order of things, joyless, busy, transformed Chapelizod[.]"