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| Dermot Keogh
Company keeping under the stars at night has succeeded in too many places the good old irish custom of visiting, chatting and story-telling from one house to another. Notes: View of Archbishop Gilmartin of Tuam 1926, from Twentieth Century Ireland |
| Pope John Paul II
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. |
| John F. Kennedy
"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers." |
| Jonathan Swift
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. |
| Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. |
| Liam O'Flaherty
I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones. |
| James Buchanan
My Ulster blood is my most priceless heritage. |
| C.S. Lewis
"God gives the gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them." |
| Stephen Harris
"What were we celebrating? At this rate, the Angelus doesn't have a chance of remaining on Route if we've managed to get St. Patrick out of his own parade." Notes: Irish Times reporter on not seeing a single figure of the saint in the 1998 Dublin parade. |
| Renee McCall
Too young to die. Too drunk to live Notes: of the Daily Express on the passing of Brendan Behan on this date in 1964 at the age of 41. |
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