Dante bent across the table and cried to Mr Casey: — Right! Right! They were always right! God and morality and religion come first. Mrs Dedalus, seeing her excitement, said to her: — Mrs Riordan, don’t excite yourself answering them. — God and religion before everything! Dante cried. God and religion before the world. Mr Casey raised his clenched fist and brought it down on the table with a crash. — Very well then, he shouted hoarsely, if it comes to that, no God for Ireland!
