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

How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?

- 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…

- 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 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

The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

- Thomas Cahill

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.

- 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 …

- 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 …

- Thomas Cahill