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20 Cards in this Set
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Maire - There's ten below
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"There's ten below me and no man in the house. What do you suggest?"
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Miare - But we're always sniffing about
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But we're always sniffing about for it, aren't we? - looking for disaster. The rents are going to go up again - the harvest's going to be lost - the herring have gone away for ever -there's going to be evictions"
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Birdget - "and from the very first
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"and from the very first day you go, you'll not hear one word of Irish spoke. You'll be taught to speak English and every subject will be taught through English"
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Maire - 'The old language
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Qouting Daniel O'COnnell 'The old language is a barrier to modern progress.' "He said that last month. And he's right. I don't want Greek. I don't want Latin. I want English"
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Maire- We heard stories
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"We heard stories that you own ten big shops in Dublin - is it true?"
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Owen - My job is to translate
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"My job is to translate the quaint, archaic tounge you people persist in speaking into the king's good english"
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Maire - You talk to me about getting married -
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Maire - You talk to me about getting married - with niether a roof over your head nor a sod of ground under your foot. I suggest you go for the new school; but no - "my father's in for that" Well now he's got it and now this is finished and now you've got nothing
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Yolland - I feel very foolish to - to - to
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Yolland - I feel very foolish to - to - to be working here and not to speak your language. But I intend to rectify that.
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Manus - There was nothing
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Manus - There was nothing uncertain about what lancey said: it's a bloody military operation, Own!
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Yolland - Your Irish
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Your Irish air has made me bold
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Manus - I understand the
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I understand the Lanceys perfectly but people like you puzzle me
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Yolland - Even if I did speak Irish
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Yolland - Even if I did speak Irish I'd always be an outsider here, wouldn't I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me"
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Hugh - Yes, it is a rich language, Lieutenant,
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Ye, it is a rich language, Lieutenant, full of the mythologies of fantasy and hope and self-deception... It is our response to mud cabins and a diet of potatoes; our only method of replying to... inevitabilities
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Maire - say anything
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Say anything at all. I love the sound of your speech
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Bridget - If you want to know
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Bridget - If you want to know about Yolland, ask the Donnelly twins
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Lancey - commencing twenty-four
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Commencing twenty-four hours from now we will shoot all livestock in Ballybeg
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Lancey - Where does she live?
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Lancey- Where does she live?
Owen - Bun an hAbhann Lancey - Where? Owen - Burnfoot. |
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Doalty - When my grandfather was
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Doalty - When my grandfather was a boy they did the same thing.
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Jimmy - But what I'm really
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But what I'm really looking for, Hugh, - what I really want - companionship
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Hugh - We must learn where we live.
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We must learn where we live. We must learn to make them our own.
Owen - I know where I live |
