Irish President Michael D. Higgins on Israel -
"To announce in advance that you will break international law and to do so to an innocent population - reduces all the code that was there from the Second World War on the protection of civilians, and it reduces it to tatters."
Palestinians “can go to Ireland or deserts” - Israeli Minister Amichai Eliyahu, 2023
The Irish can go “to hell or to Connaught” - Oliver Cromwell, 17th Century.
Men defining what a woman is, what women should and shouldn’t fear, what women should and shouldn’t say, what rights women should be fine with giving up and, of course, what constitutes ‘real’ misogyny: get a bloody mirror. That’s real misogyny, looking right back at you.
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:
My father, digging. I look down
And some time make the time to drive out west
Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,
In September or October, when the wind
And the light are working off each other
So that the ocean on one side is wild
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