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“Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.”
― Tears of the Moon
― Tears of the Moon
“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”
― The Ballad of the White Horse
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”
― The Ballad of the White Horse
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
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“Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know — that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.”
― Our Town
― Our Town
“Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.”
― The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
― The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
Kate’s 2025 Year in Books
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