When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. . . . No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove. --James Joyce
Banshees are a part of irish folklore. The banshee was a female spirit whose wailing outside a house was said to signal the impending death of someone inside.
Ireland is a country in which the political conflicts are at least genuine: they are about something. They are about patriotism, about religion, or about money: the three great realities. --Gilbert Kieth Chesterton
The Shamrock leaf is often associated with St. Patrick. Legend states that when he was converting the heathen priests on the hill of Tara he explained the trinity to them by using the symbol of the Shamrock leaf.
St. Patrick is the apostle and patron saint of Ireland. He was born in what is now Dumbarton in Scotland, and as a boy was sold into slavery in Ireland. After escaping to Gaul and studying under St. Martin, he had a supernatural call to preach to the heathens of Ireland. He eventually converted the people of Ulster as well as the rest of Ireland. He is often portrayed banishing the serpents of Ireland, one of many legends about him.
On April 13, 1906 -- was born. Although Beckett was born in Dublin, he settled in Paris in 1937 and wrote many of his works in french. Through his novels, poetry, and plays such as Waiting for Godot, Beckett presented an absurd, comically pessimistic allegory of man's condition. He was awarded the nobel prize in literature in 1969.
The most famous of Ireland's little people is the leprechaun. Legend has it that if you catch one of them, he will lead you to a pot of gold. But if you take your eyes off him, he will disappear into thin air.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Nobel Prize winner, is described by many a mind as a literary genius whose extraordinary talent matches that of Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Pushkin and Gorky. Biography, quotes, photos, news articles, books and reviews.
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