(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it. That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.
In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish … - Thomas Cahill
In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish …
- Thomas Cahill
Throughout the world, half of all children go to bed hungry each night and one in seven of God's children is facing starvation. Before such statistic… - Thomas Cahill
Throughout the world, half of all children go to bed hungry each night and one in seven of God's children is facing starvation. Before such statistic…
Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as… - Thomas Cahill
Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as…
How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable? - Thomas Cahill
How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?
Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent. - Thomas Cahill
Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.
Throughout our world the cry of the poor so often goes unheard. The prophets harangued Israel and Judah unceasingly about the powerless and marginali… - Thomas Cahill
Throughout our world the cry of the poor so often goes unheard. The prophets harangued Israel and Judah unceasingly about the powerless and marginali…
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more than … - Thomas Cahill
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more than …
The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her … - Thomas Cahill
The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her …
The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters - Thomas Cahill
The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters
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