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"For Yeats the real or true self is not some God-given or nature-given primary self but the achieved self, that 'theatrical' second self that is deliberately and artfully fashioned in the course of a disciplined productive life. It is a condition of living 'an arduous full life'
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"I have heard many a young fellow of seventeen or eighteen laying out his plan of life, on the basis of what would be his pension at sixty-five...such a mode of thought is intolerable. Pearse saw it long before. He knew that ideals are as necessary as food for sustaining life."
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"The Irish Revolution, Corkery made me realise, had been, and in its continuation was still, an attempt to repair the damage done to the nation by making it once more a 'normal nation'. A state, language, culture of its own, and a self-sustaining economy were elements of such
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"Gaeilge grammar inquisitions on cold Monday mornings. The swastika laundry van waiting outside for anyone who got 3 questions wrong about Dev's 'Modh Coinníollach' theory. Trembling with fear hoping the Provisionals' radar station didn't track you tuning into Top of the Pops."
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When the poet Seon Ó hUaithnín (b.1688) was on trial for seditious poetry in Ennis, he told the court translator not to spoil the poem even if it got him hanged.
Later joined the Spanish army. Called "the strongest, most agile, fastest man in the country" by a contemporary.
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"Man's mind demands some comprehensible order and structure....He must connect with others to share insights on life. He must give expression to his longing for better life...Such are the things art provides to man."
Ó Doibhlin
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"Eilíonn an aigne sin ord agus eagar éigin...Is gá dó teagmháil a dhéanamh le daoine eile ionas gur feidir leo a léargas ar an saol a roinnt ar a chéile. Is gá dó friotal a chur ar an tnúthán atá aige i ndiaidh saoil níos fearr...Sin iad na rudaí a dhéanann an ealaín..."
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deliberate.
"The writers of the Nation therefore saw it as their patriotic duty to give the Irish people the ‘national’ education that the British government had deliberately prevented them from receiving."
Quinn, 'Young Ireland and the Writing of Irish History' (2015)
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"The authorities too were aware that history was capable of stirring up powerful emotions and took pains to ensure that the national school curriculum contained nothing that might encourage a sense of historical grievance...the exclusion of Irish history from the curriculum was
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@eoin_murchu Maybe not strictly unionist, but would a purist republican party refer to the national question as "mythical", spread revisionism against "Catholic sob stories" from the Penal era, attack Sean South and reject "irredentist nationalism"?
('The Irish Industrial Revolution',1976)
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@Amergin_ You're leaving out the demand for a Bill of Rights, which would establish the parameters of what a devolved assembly could do with the aim of eliminating sectarianism from decisions. Wishful thinking perhaps but not Unionism. That came later.
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"The [Workers' Party] was...now moving rapidly towards a position on the North indistinguishable in its structural form from that held by most Unionists. In the coming years, MacGiolla’s party would call for restoration of a local assembly [without]...power-sharing."
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"When we embark on the Homeric rivers, strange words resonate, beautiful like forgotten flowers: glory, courage, bravery, ardour, destiny, strength and honour...The Iliad and Odyssey are songs of transcendence."
Sylvain Tesson, 'Un été avec Homère' (2018)
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"There are in Irish renderings of a number of classical and post-classical texts that are earlier by several centuries than kindred material in any European vernacular."
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Mainistir Oirbhealach / Locha Léin
First established in 1340, then refounded for the Franciscans between 1440-48 by Domhnall an Daimh Mac Cárthaigh Mór, son of Tadhg na Manistreach.
In 1586, Donagh O'Murthuile OSF was tortured and stoned to death here by English soldiers.
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"His [O'Rafferty's] poetry is from beginning to end highly political. Within it is found a national, even nationalist ideology and a Weltanschauung [worldview] of the native race, unrevealed in state documents. It is clear a uniform national conception of language, culture,
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"Tá a [Ó Raifteirí] chuid filíochta ó thús deireadh thar a bheith polaitiúil. Faightear inti idé-eolaíocht náisiúnta, fiú náisiúnaíoch, agus weltanschauung an chine dhúchais, nach léirítear i gcáipéisí stáit."....is léar gur coincheap náisiúnta aonfhoirmeach ó thaobh teanga,
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