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I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.
I went on to propose that our own culture and the classical tongues made a happier conjugation [...] English, I suggested, couldn't really express us.
The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real.
No matter how long the sun may linger on his long and weary journey, at length evening comes with its sacred song.
Come on man, speak in English.
For the benefit of the colonist?
He's a decent man.
Aren't they all at some level?
I was a member of the Nationalist Party for several years. I don't remember how long. Those were very dreary days, because the Nationalist Party ... it's hard to describe what it was. I suppose it held on to some kind of little faith, you know? It wasn't even sure what the faith was, and it was a very despised enterprise by everybody.
But remember that words are signals, counters. They are not immortal. And it can happen - to use an image you'll understand - it can happen that a civilisation can be imprisoned in a linguistic contour which no longer matches the landscape of ... fact.
Confusion is not an ignoble condition
Say anything at all – I love the sound of your speech.
Even if I did speak Irish, I'd always be considered an outsider here, wouldn't I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won't it? The private core will always be ... hermetic, won't it?
To remember everything is a form of madness.
