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National Gallery Of Ireland - Details about exhibitions, programmes and events, general information and gallery news.
Studies - Published by the Irish Jesuits and aiming to examine social political and economic issues; discusses literature, history, philosophy, religion, and Irish identity. Helps to promote understanding of Northern Ireland.
Irish Diaspora Studies - A world-wide, scholarly, inter-disciplinary study of the Irish Diaspora, and its social, linguistic, economic, cultural and political causes and consequences.
Irish Culture And Customs - History, traditions, emblems, recipes, folklore, myths and legends.
Earthlore Explorations - National and regional profiles, histories, study tools,galleries and tales.
Roadside Memorials in Ireland - Photos and locations of roadside memorials to traffic accident victims in Ireland. Monuments, Crosses, Insciptions. Verge memorials. Classified by province and county.
Aspect Ireland - A miscellany of things Irish, including photographs, stories, humour and items on people places and history.
Irish Culture & Society - Provides links to articles, reviews and op-ed pieces relevant to those with an interest in Irish studies.
Missing Irish People - Help locate Irish missing persons.
Irish African/Asian Conservation and Wildlife Trust - Details of the charity which offers education about endagered species in the 3rd World.
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 average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. -- Bertrand Russell "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Society and Culture It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Society and Culture He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard Society and Culture "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers Society and Culture Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style. -- Fred Astaire To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide Society and Culture The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Society and Culture "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod Society and Culture Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget. -- Adela Rogers St. John The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Society and Culture Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Society and Culture Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Society and Culture In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Society and Culture "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be Society and Culture Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. -- Bertolt Brecht Society and Culture Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. -- Michael Leunig The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Society and Culture "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) Society and Culture The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. -- Peter De Vries "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Society and Culture "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn Society and Culture
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