Méabh

“Dogs own space and cats own time.”
― Nicola Griffith, Hild

“If I was willing to serve Mass, it was in memory of my ancestors standing around a rock, in a lonely glen, for fear of the landlords and their yeomen, or sneaking through a back-lane in Dublin, and giving the pass-word, to hear Mass in a slum public-house, when a priest’s head was worth five pounds and an Irish Catholic had no existence in law.”
― Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy

“Dearborn, the home of Ford and Arabic street signs. Not many brothers out there, which, of course, had always been old man Ford’s design. Keeping Arabs out had probably never occurred to him.”
― Scott Lasser, Say Nice Things About Detroit: A Novel

“Don't speak of your Protestant minister,
Nor of his church without meaning or faith,
For the foundation stone of his temple
Was the bollocks of Henry VIII Brendan Behan”
― Brendan Behan