Irish Permanent Building

Famous quotes containing the words irish, permanent and/or building:

    “I was the rector’s son, born to the anglican order,
    Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;
    The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept
    With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)

    “The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it’s the other things which are the more permanent and real.”
    —Brian Friel (b. 1929)

    “The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)