I shall gain glory or die.
The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.
I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.
The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.