“It’s a lottery, a blood lottery. But I’m very glad that I’m part of this one.”
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Patrick Osborne
“Bridging the gap to Ireland and England? Yeah. That’s a huge part of who I am.”
Fr Bernárd Lynch
“Nobody has a monopoly on suffering. The world breaks everybody.”
Brian O’Neill
“Everything’s on your doorstep. The strangeness of Ireland is on your doorstep.”
Warren Reilly
“We’ve been very valuable and very creative and knowledgeable and intelligent and beautiful.”
Margaret Urwin
“Deliberate amnesia, that’s what that was about.”
Chelsea McDonagh
“I think there are a thousand ways to be a Traveller…but, you know, I’d ride or die for my family. That’s it.”
Jack Byrne
“Where I’m from is not just a geography. It’s taken a long time to realise that.”
Tony Frisby
“It’s never people. It’s always governments.”
Chris McDonagh
“It’s not a lifestyle choice. It’s who we are as people.”