Patrick James McLaughlin

my vocab is very limited in Irish but not really, it's more Latin based and the words and spelling are it's own thing, i believe it's 2000 years older than English

Ulster Scots shares a lot of words with Norwegian, barn is child and in US is bairn, kirke is church (sheerkuh) and kirk in US (kerk)

That streak is for Irish 🇮🇪 fairly fluent in Norwegian 🇳🇴 now but still learning everyday, understand some Brazilian Portuguese 🇧🇷 but can't speak much and (not that i consider it a language) also use a lot of Ulster Scots words and phrases

...a longing within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness...in the arms of perfection...and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

Death in Venice, Thomas Mann

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"There's more sky in these parts than ground"

Joseph Brodsky, on Ireland

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Take it to heart, and pass the word along;
fair dealing brings more profit in the end.

Homer, The Odyssey

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Now I say, friends, the time is overdue to let them have it. Battlespoil they want from our dead bodies to add to all they plundered here before.

Homer, The Odyssey

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May God requite those insolent dogs for the game they play in a home not their own. They have no decency.

Homer, The Odyssey

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Evil may be endured when our days pass
in mourning, heavy-hearted, hard beset,
if only sleep reign over nighttime, blanketing the world's good and evil from our eyes.

Homer, The Odyssey

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Now you, too, go to sleep. This all night vigil wearies the flesh. You'll come out soon enough on the other side of trouble.

Homer, The Odyssey

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The hard man and his cruelties will be cursed behind his back, and mocked in death.
But one whose heart and ways are kind - of him strangers will bear report to the wide world, and distant men will praise him.

Homer, The Odyssey

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Heaven deals death no man avoids.

Homer, The Odyssey

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How many, think ye, have likewise fallen into Plato’s honey head, and sweetly perished there?

George Bernard Shaw born on July 26, 1856 at 3 Upper Synge Street, Dublin.

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

Edvard Munch museum, Oslo

designed by Estudio Herreros

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Oslo Opera House

designed by Snøhetta

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All deaths are hateful to us, mortal wretches,
but famine is the most pitiful, the worst
end that a man can come to.

Homer, The Odyssey

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Rough years then lie between
you and your homecoming, alone and old,
the one survivor, all companions lost

Homer, The Odyssey

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Better, I say, to break sod as a farm hand
for some poor country man, on iron rations,
than lord it over all the exhausted dead.

Homer, The Odyssey

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