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| George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die anymore than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. |
| From Irish Folk Ways by E. Estyn Evans
What is called 'Irishness' can be understood only in relation to the homeland. There is a saying that you can take a boy out of Ireland but you cannot take Ireland out of the boy. In the long run, I believe geography counts for more than genes. |
| From Literary and Historical Essays (1846) by Thom
This country of ours is no sand-bank thrown up by some caprice of earth. It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilization , traceable into antiquity by its piety, its valour, and its sufferings. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river of the Irish mind. |
| From 'Galway of the Races by Robert Lynd.
Galway City ...is to the discoverer of Ireland something like what Chapman's 'Homer' was to Keats. It's a clue, a provocation, an enticement. |
| John Millington Synge
In Ireland, for a few years more, we have a popular imagination that is fiery and magnificent and tender, so that those of us who wish to write start with a chance that is not given to writers in places where the springtime of the local life has been forgotten and the harvest is a memory only, and the straw has been turned into bricks. |
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