Rebuilding Lives in Northern Ireland
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Nov 11th, 2013
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.”
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Oct 28th, 2013
“It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.”(Quiet people can look after themselves).
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Oct 23rd, 2013
“If suffering brings wisdom, I wish to be less wise.”
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Oct 22nd, 2013
“The Irish treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.” Sean O’Casey
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Sep 8th, 2013
The unwise man is awake night and worries over again.
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Aug 7th, 2013
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 […]
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Jul 30th, 2013
“The Irish are a fair people — they never speak well of one another.” Samuel Johnson.
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Jul 22nd, 2013
“Put silk on a goat and it is still a goat” or “You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.”
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Jul 20th, 2013
“God shares with the person who is generous.”
Posted in Quotes, Poems, Proverbs and Sayings on Jul 18th, 2013
Baptize your own child first (tend to you own affairs before troubling about other people’s).
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