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 ….

People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with du….

Confusion is not an ignoble condition.

To remember everything is a form of madness..

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….

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language..