Old Green Deal

“There is a war between the living and the dead, and the Irish stories keep harping upon it.” (William Butler Yeats)

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” (William Butler Yeats)

St. Patrick’s day greeting from 1927.(USPD/Commons.,wikimedia.org)

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” (George Bernard Shaw)

“Books, the children of the brain.” (Jonathan Swift)

“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.”(Jonathon Swift)

St Patrick’s Day wish. (1908.USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” (Jonathan Swift)

“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”(William Butler Yeats)

St. Patrick’s Day postcard.(USPD/ Commons.wikimedia.org)

“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.” (Jonathon Swift)

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” (Oscar Wilde)

Postcard, 1908. Good luck with that one.(USPD/Commons.,wikimedia.org)

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” (Oscar Wilde)

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” (George Bernard Shaw)

The more things change, the more they stay the same. St. Patrick’s Day print of wounded from the Front in hospital at a Pietermartizburg ward during Boer War. Wounded Irishman being offered a shamrock by visiting lady, April 1900.(Wellcome Trust Iconic Collections/ Wellcome Collection Gallery, UK)

“Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.”( Seamus Heaney, a poet who also wrote “Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.” Now that’s Irish.)

“In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.” (Seamus Heaney)

“Poetry is more a threshold than a path.” (Seamus Heaney)

St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland, 1890 litho.print (USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!” (William Butler Yeats)

Presenting: Cromwell’s Bridge Glengariff postcard.(USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

“May your glass be ever full.

May the roof over your head be always strong.

And may you be in heaven

half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead”

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge

Yep, smiling eyes today for one and all.(USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

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