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...we have seen that the priests regard the state as an enemy to be exploited, it is only natural th...

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World is suddener than we fancy it.

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Louis MacNeiceCollected Poems of Louis MacNeice

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the...

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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;In exi...

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She noticed then that Conor was watching her.'Are you going for a swim?' he asked her.'In a while. W...

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The Irish were poor, but not enslaved. He had come here to hack away at the ropes that held American...

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To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

it’s like the British in Ireland in 1916’ , says Oisir O’Dowd. ‘The repeated the ageless macho mantr...

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I heard you went to Ireland...I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful...

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Diana GabaldonThe Scottish Prisoner

I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely t...

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Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take s...

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That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a...

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No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

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James ConnollySongs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook

God and religion before every thing!' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.' Mr Casey rai...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and...

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The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.