The Abode of FancyWe Irish are a shallow people, albeit perversely fair perhaps, as cruel to others as to ourselves, treasuring the unconsummated and the failed, making shallow friendships founded on fatuous fun that runs so cold in the bitter end, backbiting and bitching and kicking our enemies when they are down, snide wiseguys who refuse to acknowledge the depths, emotional retards embarrassed by awkward topics away from which we shy, making nothing but a mess of

thinking that I might have died unknowingly

with whom he shared a dedicated engagement with the Irish tradition

Grace exists in a state of profound emotional paralysis

a letter  arrives

A Fairy Tale of New York (1973)

because Johnsey does not consider himself capable of farming it himself

' - Marianne Faithfull

In her inimitable style

Balbriggan

evicted many of the tenants

From the ashes of these deadly events

In answer to a question on his policy during his election campaign he said it was to get 'as much money together as I can and go like hell'