"In the midst of all this, I've noticed a tonal shift in the way I and other Irish people speak about the English. Our…"

"I've lived in London for three years. I hadn't spent much time in Britain before my arrival and had no particular fee…"

"Almost as soon as I began, I was lost. The idea of getting up each day and going to class, of learning over and over …"

"Though there is more I could say on this – details that would both elicit sympathy and make me look like a spoiled li…"

"Part of what I find depressing about England is that, rather than being upset with the wider forces that make your li…"

"It is, sadly, not unheard of for the mother of an abuse victim to side with a romantic partner who is the child’s abu…"

"It is disturbing to imagine a figure of apparent dignity and autonomy, one who achieved such mastery in her field, as…"

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."