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'Irish Catholicism has many mansions, but one of them includes a good bedrock of paganism, or animism. I've never heard the banshee knock on my door in the night to announce that someone in the family would soon die, but I think I would know the sound if I heard it.'
— May 05, 2026 06:40AM
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'I don't have a fairy fort in my garden, but if I did I wouldn't allow it to be removed, and if it were removed I would expect bad luck, and soon. (My neighbors have one, and it won't in our lifetime or any foreseeable lifetime be bulldozed, although it is in the way.)'
— May 05, 2026 06:40AM
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'I saw most of the Bergman films... and I believed in their northern gloom and deep seriousness as I believed in nothing else.
— Apr 27, 2026 05:31PM
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'As she dropped by on her way back from a performance, I loved asking her if there had been a big crowd at the play. This is what you did in Enniscorthy, where I'm from. If anyone has been out anywhere--at mass, a football match, downtown, in Dublin, to the pub--you asked them: "Was there a big crowd?"'
— Apr 27, 2026 10:24AM