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| From a Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus
Can it be out of the kindness of my heart that I carry out such a labor of mercy on a people who once captured me when they wrecked my father's house and carried off his servants? For by descent I was a freeman, born of a decurion father; yet I have sold this nobility of mine, I am not ashamed, nor do I regret that it might have meant some advantage to others. In short, I am a slave in Christ to this faraway people for the indescribable glory of "everlasting life which is in Jesus Christ our Lord." Notes: translated from the Latin by John Skinner in The Confession of St. Patrick |
| Adrienne Cook
St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time - a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic. |
| Former GAA president Sean Kelly
I have rarely been prouder or more conscious of my country and my nationality. |
| George Bernard Shaw
Marriage: When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. |
| John Boyle O'Reilly
The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove. But I send you a cream-white- rosebud With a flush on its petal tips; For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips. |
| Douglas Hyde
The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a very powerful destroyer; but it is useless for building up. Love, on the other hand, is like faith; it can move mountains, and faith, we have mountains to move. |
| Brien Friel
People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have. |
| Maria Edeworth
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. |
| Narration at the beginning of the movie, The Uninv
They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them. Notes: Based on the novel by Dorothy Macardle. |
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