It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment.
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
