We stand, then, to lose our home, the home of our children, the Irish generations as yet unborn. Already weakened by a history of occupation, genocide and forcible cultural reconstruction, we have lacked the clarity and courage to defend our sweet land, its ways, laws and culture.
I was never a real leftie, but the more I see of of such creatures, the more I think that people who are not ‘real lefties’ may be among the most dangerous of all. I was what I would call a ‘soft leftie’, which pretty much describes 90 per cent of the Irish population right […]
A combination of anonymity, invulnerability, and defensiveness causes Twitter users to revert to a form of pre-civilization, in which kill-or-be-killed defines the conditions of exchange.
I sensed I was missing something, yet had no idea what it might be. I now understand what it was I lacked: your capacity to integrate your view of reality with the objects you manipulated and the things you did with your hands.