The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.