Being Irish he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school -...
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent for in...
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall...
We make out of the quarrel with others rhetoric but of the quarrel with...
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to...
I heard the old old men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away like the...
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing...
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and...
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to...
Geographically Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but...
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.