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- Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the…
- When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was…
- The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything…
- The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church…
- For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in…
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