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Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour.” {Source: A Green Desert Father}


Richard Mc Sweeney


#esoteric #fashion #freedom-of-thought #ireland #irish-poet

A ógánaigh... ná bris an ghloine ghlan 'tá eadrainn (ní bhristear gloine gan fuil is pian) óir tá Neamh nó Ifreann thall 'gus cén mhaith Neamh mura mairfidh sé go bráth? ní Ifreann go hIfreann iar-Neimhe... (Impí)


Caitlín Maude


#gaeilge #grá #impí #ireland #irish

Then the woman in the bed sat up and looked about her with wild eyes; and the oldest of the old men said: 'Lady, we have come to write down the names of the immortals,’ and at his words a look of great joy came into her face. Presently she, began to speak slowly, and yet eagerly, as though she knew she had but a little while to live, and, in English, with the accent of their own country; and she told them the secret names of the immortals of many lands, and of the colours, and odours, and weapons, and instruments of music and instruments of handicraft they held dearest; but most about the immortals of Ireland and of their love for the cauldron, and the whetstone, and the sword, and the spear, and the hills of the Shee, and the horns of the moon, and the Grey Wind, and the Yellow Wind, and the Black Wind, and the Red Wind. ("The Adoration of the Magi")


W.B. Yeats


#ireland #mythology #love

And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (“How to Write with Style”. Essay, 1985)


Kurt Vonnegut


#style #writer #writers-quotes #writing #music

God and religion before every thing!' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.' Mr Casey raised his clenched fist and brought it down on the table with a crash. 'Very well then,' he shouted hoarsely, 'if it comes to that, no God for Ireland!' 'John! John!' cried Mr Dedalus, seizing his guest by the coat sleeve. Dante stared across the table, her cheeks shaking. Mr Casey struggled up from his chair and bent across the table towards her, scraping the air from before his eyes with one hand as though he were tearing aside a cobweb. 'No God for Ireland!' he cried, 'We have had too much God in Ireland. Away with God!


James Joyce


#ireland #religion

My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.


James Joyce


#ireland #james-joyce #artists

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


Maggie Stiefvater


#horses #ireland #monsters #november #fantasy

Out of Ireland have we come. Great hatred, little room, Maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb A fanatic heart.


W.B. Yeats


#hatred

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.


Iris Murdoch


#ireland #irish #women #feminism

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.


James Joyce


#irish #lyrical #sea #lyrics






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