Mary Gordon (writer) Quote

For the Irish, the present constantly butts up against the past in the form of a political reality that is at once utterly present and archaic.


Good Boys and Dead Girls: and Other Essays (1991)


For the Irish, the present constantly butts up against the past in the form of a political reality that is at once utterly present and archaic.

For the Irish, the present constantly butts up against the past in the form of a political reality that is at once utterly present and archaic.

For the Irish, the present constantly butts up against the past in the form of a political reality that is at once utterly present and archaic.

For the Irish, the present constantly butts up against the past in the form of a political reality that is at once utterly present and archaic.