Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.

You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.