Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
I mean we are tribal by nature and sometimes success and material wealth...
The first time you hold your baby in your arms I mean a sense of strength...
You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family...
I do enjoy reading some science fiction.
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs...
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and...
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
In other words knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.