Conway Mill Trust

“For the great Gaels of Ireland, And the ones God made mad, For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.”     G.K. Chesterton

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“From our birthday until we die is but the winking of an eye.”

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From a speech by Daniel O’Connell, 1843: “Not all that the universe contains would I, in the struggle for what I conceive my country’s cause, consent to the effusion of a single drop of human blood, except my own.”

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From a speech by Daniel O’Connell 1843: “Not all that the universe contains would I, in the struggle for what I conceive my country’s cause, consent to the effusion of a single drop of human blood, except my own.”           

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“It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.”(Quiet people can look after themselves).

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“If suffering brings wisdom, I wish to be less wise.”

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“The Irish treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.”  Sean O’Casey

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The unwise man is awake night and worries over again.

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The saying ‘by hook or by crook’ is unknown but one possible explanation is that when Cromwell came to Ireland via Wexford, he sailed between Hook Head lighthouse and the village of Crook showing his determination to capture Ireland by any means; so it has come to portray determination to do something by any means [...]

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“The Irish are a fair people — they never speak well of one another.” Samuel Johnson.

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