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“I am half Irish — the rest of my blood being watered down with German and Massachusetts English. But Irish blood doesn’t water down very well, the strain must be very strong.”  John Steinbeck “Irishness is comprehensive and inclusive, ancient and ever-changing. Irishness is a growing thing. It does not stand still.”  John Bruton (Taoiseach […]

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“People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.”  Edmund Burke

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Sigmund Freud, talking about the Irish, “This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.”

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“Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.” “The young are always ready to give those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.” “A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”

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Epitath on an Irish immigrant’s gravesite in a Virginia City graveyard where gold miners are buried: “I came for the love of gold and found that I had left it behind in Ireland.”

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“Being Irish, I have an abiding sense of tragedy which sustains me through temporary periods of joy.”  (W. B. Yeats)

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. This is his.     Oscar Wilde He is scant of news that speaks ill of his mother.

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In her eyes are the blue lakes of Killarney, On her cheeks the pink rose of Kildare, On her lips just a wee bit of blarney, And the sheen of the Shannon’s in her hair. She’s as sweet as the day She stole Dad’s heart away That sweet Irish mother of mine.

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