The History of Dublin - history of the capital, with online books and pictures. Includes a weekly feature.
The O'Byrne Files - Dublin slang dictionary and phrasebook. A useful guide for the unsuspecting traveller on how to speak English in Dublin plus info on how to join in all kinds of conversations.
The Holy Order of the Lemon - Details of a ritual action carried out at the weirs above Islandbridge at the Irish War Memorial Park in Dublin.
Phoenix Park - Read about the largest park in Europe.
Glasnevin Cemetery - Includes historical information, details of walking tours and a map.
Merchants Quay Ireland - Agency information, news tracking, briefing publications, and web links regarding homelessness, substance abuse and related issues in Dublin.
Drimnagh Castle - Information about the history of the castle and the tours offered. Includes an events page.
YMCA - Provides details of its work in areas such as youth and community, fitness and childcare.
The Anchorage Project - A Christian community project for children. Information on the playschool and other programs, as well as contact information and volunteer opportunities.
Michael Turley - Profile and contact information for 2004 local government elections candidate in Dublin's Pembroke constituency.
Dublin Canadian Association - Information about an organization that provides a little local cráic for ex-Dubs.
Temple Street Eye Clinic - Charity Christmas card selection sold by the Clinic at Temple Street Hospital.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Society and Culture Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
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-- George Santayana Society and Culture
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Society and Culture "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Society and Culture
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Society and Culture "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Society and Culture
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Society and Culture If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Society and Culture
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Society and Culture Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Society and Culture Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Society and Culture
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Society and Culture Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Society and Culture The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Society and Culture
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Society and Culture I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Society and Culture "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Society and Culture
