Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had come from the South, saw nothing but a mist, and it lying on the hills.

It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on 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.

It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.

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.