If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and… — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful. — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
“The upshot of it has been that the spirit of the Past is now widely regarded amongst us as a purely immaterial force pumping… — Seán Ó Faoláin Copy Share Image
If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of… — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the… — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
“Ireland had clung to her youth, indeed to her childhood, longer and more tenaciously than any other country in Europe, resisting Change, Alteration, Reconstruction… — Seán Ó Faoláin Copy Share Image
In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly. — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats. — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
