“ THAT crazed girl improvising her music.Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,Her soul in division from itselfClimbing, falling She knew not where,Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,Her knee-cap broken,… W.B. Yeats
“ Any good history begins in strangeness. The past should not be comfortable. The past should not a familar echo of the present, for if it is familar why revist it? The past should be so strange that yo… Richard White
“ When boys called Bob and Bono would bring their own wild-rhythm celebration and the world would fall down in worshipful hallelujahs as it again acknowledged Ireland's capacity to create missionaries.… Josephine Hart
“ And if I was bewildered through those decades, totally bewildered, so was the country I came from. The majority, what was the phrase? 'Condemn utterly what is happening, this barbarity.' But that's al… Josephine Hart
“ Old, is it?" the man asks."Yes, very.""Pre-war, is it?""Yes," I say. "If by war you mean the Norman invasion. Garrett Carr
“ There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed. Rhian J. Martin
“ There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England. But fellow students had complained that Irish living together in larg… Emily Hahn
“ Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it. Richard Killeen
“ I make my way back whistling. Gerry nods towards Mrs Brady who is standing beside the trolleys.Morning, Mrs Brady, I say cheerfully.I push her provisions out to the car.Things are something terrible,… Dermot Healy
“ I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely at home in organized religion. It was later, when I was able to travel farther , that… Eudora Welty
“ In prehistoric times, early man was bowled over by natural events: rain, thunder, lightning, the violent shaking and moving of the ground, mountains spewing deathly hot lava, the glow of the moon, the… Signe Pike
“ As she glanced down at the great distance to the ground below, she whispered in his ear, "You have obviously taken the heights of passion to an entirely new level, Killian O'Brien! Leigh Ann Edwards
“ I think I could spend an eternity with you, Killian, and never tire of hearing you speak to me. Leigh Ann Edwards
“ By God, Lainna, have you truly no notion how badly I want you, then?""Oh, but did you not once tell me the anticipation is half the pleasure of it? Leigh Ann Edwards
“ In truth, I doubt I'd notice if a herd of giant Irish elk stomped through the entire chamber when I'm in the act of lovin' you, Lainna! Leigh Ann Edwards
“ I've no plans to couple with anyone other than my new bride for the next century or so, and it feels as though it's takin' a century to get to it! Leigh Ann Edwards
