It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.

She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

There's more learning than is taught in books.

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.