000 Irishmen—many of them of green, nationalist background—who responded to the call made in August 1914 by John Redmond, the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Westminster, for the men of Ireland to fight for the British Army in Europe. “I say to the government that they may...
I’m trying different recipes and preparations, figuring either I’ll find a way I enjoy it, or I can eventually say, “I’ve tried this a dozen different ways, and now I know for sure it’s not for me.”) And puzzles? There’s a monkey’s face I’ve worn for 48 years. I d...
When the drop is inside the sense is outside — Irish Proverbs 49 Only once we have the explanation can we make the prediction. — Naval Ravikant 43 Short Make Sense Quotes A good explanation, first and foremost, is testable or falsifiable. — Naval Ravikant The prediction comes after th...
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme inThings Fall Apart, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Tradition vs. Change The novel's title is a quote from a poem by the Irish poet W.B. Yeats called "The Second Coming": "Things fall apart; the center ...
12 Things That Shock People After Moving to New Hampshire Time to look at New Hampshire through the eyes of a new comer! What do we do differently that people from elsewhere think is weird? The answer is...A LOT OF THINGS. Gallery Credit:Kira Lew ...
000 Irishmen would subsequently die on the Western Front in the service of the British Army. Dunne would not die in Flanders; a different fate awaited him. He would be among the soldiers who happened to be home on furlough in Dublin in April 1916—a significant date in Irish history. In...
The Irish have a lovely saying “The shape of you” as in “I like the shape of you” It’s a colloquialism that speaks to the way we present ourselves. I love it because it talks of our “shape” perhaps our physical form, but also our attitude, our passion, our preparation, and...
“They got to a place where they both had each other’s back, and then within this arc, there’s something that threatens that [and] that makes them look at each other differently. And Simone [Missick] and Ruthie Ann [Miles] do a wonderful job. There are going to be scenes that ...
[…] For they openly profess, not to lay the Foundation of an English, Scotch, Irish, Popish, or Protestant Philosophy; but a Philosophy of Mankind.Footnote99According to Sprat, then, the Royal Society, was committed to a new natural philosophy which examined nature empirically and methodically...
Me: “Was there ever a moment, maybe after Bill & Ted, when people started reacting differently to you and you realised your life had changed?” Him: “Um, no.” Me: “Really?” Him: “No.”) What this distancing tactic might lack in conversational intimacy it makes up f...