A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
Every St. Patrick’s Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
That’s what the holidays are for – for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn’t that the Irish way?
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.