• Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never was, Baptized with fairy water

    Louis MacNeice: Why do we like being Irish? Partly because
It gives us a hold on the sentimental English
As members of a world that never was,
Baptized with fairy water
    Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.94, Faber & Faber