I Value My Catholic Background

Being Brought Up In A Culture Is A Matter Of Learning Appropriate Forms Of Feeling As Much As Particular Ways Of Thinking.

Understanding Is Always In Some Sense Retrospective, Which Is What Hegel Meant By Remarking That The Owl Of Minerva Flies Only At Night.

The Present Is Only Understandable Through The Past, With Which It Forms A Living Continuity; And The Past Is Always Grasped From Our Own Partial Viewpoint Within The Present.

The Government Spokesman Announces That There Is No Truth In The Charges Of Widespread Corruption Within The Cabinet; Nobody Believes Him; He Knows That Nobody Believes Him, We Know That He Knows It, And He Knows It Too.

Irish Fiction Is Full Of Secrets, Guilty Pasts, Divided Identities. It Is No Wonder That There Is Such A Rich Tradition Of Gothic Writing In A Nation So Haunted By History.