Mr. Duffy Lived A Short Distance From

Why Is It That Words Like These Seem Dull And Cold? Is It Because There Is No Word Tender Enough To Be Your Name?

As I Am. As I Am. All Or Not At All.

(...) You Cruel Creature, Little Mite Of A Thing With A Heart The Size Of A Fullstop.

But We Are Living In A Sceptical And, If I May Use The Phrase, A Thought-tormented Age: And Sometimes I Fear That This New Generation, Educated Or Hyper-educated As It Is, Will Lack Those Qualities Of Humanity, Of Hospitality, Of Kindly Humour Which Belonged To An Older Day.

An Irishman Needs Three Things : Silence, Cunnning, And Exile.