Sean O'faolain Quotes

At Harvard I learned most uncomfortably that facts are facts. In Italy I learned that facts are the way you look at them.

(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.

My final thought now is that as in religion and the arts, so in politics; if men do not balance their feelings and intelligence they lose command of both - and worse still, of their object.

Sean had been one of a group of people who wanted to rescue the Irish language from being a grim thing taught in schools and to reaffirm it in every area of life-in comedy, sex, cursing, drinking, everything. These men started the Brian Merriman School so that, for one week a year, anyone who wanted to could go to Clare to learn and talk and listen and sing and dance, in Irish or English, but anyway in the old Gaelic spirit.