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Thomas Cahill

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Irish American athlete, coach and businessman who was one of the founding fathers of soccer in the United States

Person · Open Library

Born
29 March 1940
Works
35

Top works

  • Los dones de los judíos
  • Matat ha-Yehudim
  • Arven fra jøderne
  • Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus
  • Dary evreev

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Country
US

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
147
Total plays
4,645

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Quotes

  • Whether or not Freud was right when he muttered in exasperation that the Irish were the only people who could not be helped by psychoanalysis, there can be no doubt of one thing: the Irish will never change.
  • Patrick... understood that, though Christianity was not inextricably wedded to Roman custom, it could not survive without Roman literacy.
  • Ireland is unique in religious history for being the only land into which Christianity was introduced without bloodshed.
  • The Irish of the late fifth and early sixth centuries soon found a solution... the Green Martyrdom, opposing it to the conventional Red Martyrdom of blood. The Green Martyrs... retreated to the woods, or to a mountaintop, or to a lonely island... there to study the scriptures and commune with God.
  • Irish generosity extended not only to a variety of people but to a variety of ideas. ...they brought into their libraries everything they could lay their hands on. ...Not for them the scruples of Saint Jerome... they began to devour all of the old Greek and Latin pagan literature that came their way.
  • Whereas elsewhere in Europe, no educated man would be caught dead speaking a vernacular, the Irish thought that all language was game—and too much fun to be deprived of any part of it. They were still too childlike and playful to find any value in snobbery.

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