“Yes, it is a rich language, Lieutenant, full of the mythologies of fantasy and hope and self-deception - a syntax opulent with tomorrows. It is our response to mud cabins and a diet of potatoes; our only method of replying to... inevitabilities.”
― Translations
― Translations
“Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.”
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“Cad é an mhaith dom eagla a bheith orm? Ní shaorfadh eagla duine ón mbás, dar ndóigh.”
― An Old Woman's Reflections: The Life of a Blasket Island Storyteller
― An Old Woman's Reflections: The Life of a Blasket Island Storyteller
“Treall
Tabhair dom casúr
nó tua
go mbrisfead is
go millfead
an teach seo,
go ndéanfad tairseach
den fhardoras
'gus urláir de na ballaí,
go dtiocfaidh scraith
agus díon agus
simléir anuas
le neart mo chuid
allais...
Sín chugam anois
na cláir is na tairnní
go dtógfad
an teach eile seo...
Ach, a Dhia, táim tuirseach!”
― Dánta, Drámaíocht agus Prós
Tabhair dom casúr
nó tua
go mbrisfead is
go millfead
an teach seo,
go ndéanfad tairseach
den fhardoras
'gus urláir de na ballaí,
go dtiocfaidh scraith
agus díon agus
simléir anuas
le neart mo chuid
allais...
Sín chugam anois
na cláir is na tairnní
go dtógfad
an teach eile seo...
Ach, a Dhia, táim tuirseach!”
― Dánta, Drámaíocht agus Prós
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