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Patricia O'Brien

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[Wikipedia] Patricia O'Brien is Ambassador of Ireland to Italy. She served as Ambassador to France and to Monaco from 2017 to 2021. She had served from 2013 as the Permanent Representative (Ambassador) of Ireland to the United Nations and other international organization at Geneva.

Quotes by Patricia O'Brien

“I was seeing what a writer can do with the tatters of truth, the unfinished stories that give us no rest. ”

Patricia O'Brien

Truth

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“The women who went to the field, you say... A few names were writ, and by chance live to-day; But's a perishing…

Patricia O'Brien

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“...brooding only feeds the strange pleasure of melancholy...”

Patricia O'Brien

Sad

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“He had illuminated the heartbreaking cruelty of war: When men who fight become nothing, only packages of bones and blood deposited in…

Patricia O'Brien

Death

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“I continued up the stairs, this time on wings, suspecting for the first time that Louisa's book might outlive us all. ”

Patricia O'Brien

Books

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