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#1

“Seanabhean is ea mise anois go bhfuil cos léi insan uaigh is an chos eile ar a bruach. Is mó bogradh is cruatan curtha agam díom ón gcéad lá do saolaíodh me go dtí an lá atá inniu ann. Dá mbeadh ’fhios agam go mbeadh a leath, ná a thrian, i ndán dom ní bheadh mo chroí ná m’intinn chomh haerach ná chomh misníúil is do bhí i dtosach mo shaoil.”
― Peig Sayers, Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island

tags: blasket, gaeilge, gaoluinn, irish-language, kerry, munster, peig, peig-sayers

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#2

“Treall

Tabhair dom casúr
nó tua
go mbrisfead is
go millfead
an teach seo,
go ndéanfad tairseach
den fhardoras
'gus urláir de na ballaí,
go dtiocfaidh scraith
agus díon agus
simléir anuas
le neart mo chuid
allais...

Sín chugam anois
na cláir is na tairnní
go dtógfad
an teach eile seo...

Ach, a Dhia, táim tuirseach!”
― Caitlín Maude, Dánta, Drámaíocht agus Prós

tags: caitlín-maude, gaeilge, ireland, irish, treall

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#3

“Bí ann nó as
táimse ag triall Ort

agus má tá
cuirim geasa Ort
mé a shábháil
ón dream
a deir
gur fear fuar
sa spéir Thú.”
― Caitlín Maude, Dánta, Drámaíocht agus Prós

tags: a-dhé, caitlín-maude, faith, gaeilge, god, ireland, irish, poetry

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#4

“A ógánaigh...
ná bris
an ghloine ghlan
'tá eadrainn
(ní bhristear gloine
gan fuil is pian)
óir tá Neamh
nó Ifreann thall
'gus cén mhaith Neamh
mura mairfidh sé
go bráth?
ní Ifreann
go hIfreann
iar-Neimhe...

(Impí)”
― Caitlín Maude, Dánta, Drámaíocht agus Prós

tags: caitlín-maude, gaeilge, grá, impí, ireland, irish, love

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#5

“Cad é an mhaith dom eagla a bheith orm? Ní shaorfadh eagla duine ón mbás, dar ndóigh.”
― Peig Sayers, An Old Woman's Reflections: The Life of a Blasket Island Storyteller

tags: bás, death, eagla, fear, gaeilge, ireland, irish, kerry, peig-sayers

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#6

“Craiceann a shníonn
go gléineach thar do ghéaga
mar bhainne á dháil as crúiscíní
am lóin
is tread gabhar ag gabháil thar chnocáin
do chuid gruaige
cnocáin ar a bhfuil faillte arda
is dhá ghleann atá domhain.

(Leaba Shíoda)”
― Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Spíonáin is Róiseanna

tags: filíocht, gaeilge, gaelainn, leaba-shíoda, mná, éire

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#7

“An cinniúnt, is dócha: féach an féileacán úd thall atá ag foluain os cionn mo choinnle. Ní fada go loiscfear a sciatháin mhaiseacha: cá bhfios dúinne nach bhfuil a fhios sin aige, freisin?”
― Pádraic Ó Conaire, An Chéad Chloch

tags: cinnúint, destinty, fate, gaeilge, ireland, irish, ó-conaire

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#8

“Beatha
- do Mháire Mhic Amhlaoibh,
An Fál Mór, Co. Mhaigh Eo.

- Níor airigh tú caint ar an slabhcán? -
arsa Mary Nell le hiontas,
an slabhcán a bhailíodh sí ina gearrchaile di
ar charraigreacha an Fháil Mhóir,
a thugadh sí abhaile
is a ghearradh go mion, é a bhruith ainsin le deoirín uisce.
Nuair a d'fhuaraíodh sé dhéanadh sí leac -
an blas a bhíodh air leis an ngráinne salainn!

Níor bhlais Mary Nell an slabhcán le dhá scór bliain:
- Ní bhadrálann éinne thart anseo a thuilleadh leis,
Róleitheadhach atá siad.
Ach an stuif sin a bhíonns ag fear an tsiopa
I bpotaí beaga a thigeann sé, dath pinc air -
'Yoghurt?'
- Yoghurt. Yoghurt!
M'anam go liveálfainn ar an stuif sin.
M'anam go liveálfainn air. - ”
― Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin, INNTI: Uimhir a ceathair déag

tags: fílíocht, gaeilge, ireland, scéal-grinn, witzig, yoghurt, éire

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#9

“Mo Sheanmháthair

Ar ais arís lá breá Lúnasa
Canach geosadáin ar foluain
Ar chuile leoithne ghaoithe
Do theach ina sceatraigh
Na cróite ina snaois,
Airím arís ceol na mblianta dearmadta,
Drumadóireacht an bhanna práis
Ag máirseáil síos an bóthar,
Tusa led' sciortaí ardaithe
Ag damhsa ar an screabán
Do sheachtar óg
Náire shaolta fút
Ina bhfál ceilte os do chomhair
Le nach bhfeicfeadh na comharsain
Meidhréis do dhamhsa.”
― Deirdre Brennan, INNTI: Uimhir a ceathair déag

tags: granny, großmutter, mamó, oma, seanmháthair

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#10

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

tags: truth

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#11

“Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.”
― Tristan Tzara, Manifesti del dadaismo

tags: art, books, dada, dadism, design, linguistics, literature, manifesto, politics, surrealism, typography

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#12

“Each new grammar pattern we find sheds light on how the human brain creates language. The loss of even one language may forever close the door to a full understanding of human cognitive capacity.”
― K. David Harrison, When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

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#13

“When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.”
― Ken Knabb

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#14

“Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence...”
― E.E. Cummings

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#15

“You are what you know. Fifteenth-century Europeans ‘knew’ that the sky was made of closed concentric crystal spheres, rotating around a central earth and carrying the stars and planets. That ‘knowledge’ structured everything they did and thought, because it told them the truth. Then Galileo’s telescope changed the truth.”
― James Burke

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#16

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: inspirational, wonder

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