Speech to a joint session of the Dail and the Seanad, Dublin, Ireland (28 June 1963)
1963
“The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes—to me a beatitude—is the conviction that the past matters, that history weighs on us and refuses to be forgotten by us, and that the worst poverty women—or men—can suffer is to be bereft of their past.”
Source: Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South (1983), p. 210
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