Image: Pangur Bรกn, a sculpture by Imogen Stuart, Saoi of Aosdรกna Installed at the Visitor Centre, ร ras an Uachtarรกin, 21 January, 2020 Pangur Bรกn, 9th Century poem by Irish Monk. Translated from Irish by Robin Flower Photo by Ann Lane
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit Wishing you a Happy St. Patrick’s Day
UACHTARÁN NA hÉIREANN President of Ireland
2020
“Tá sé le fios níos leithne sa lá atá inniu ann go bhfuil sé de dhualgas orainn cabhair a thabhairt dá chéile ár startha coiteanna a thuisicint, cé go mbíonn dearcthaí difriúila againn ar na startha sinn, agus cúis leo.” Léacht Holkeri, Ollscoil Queens, Béal Feirste, Bealtaine 2018
“Cuir i gcuimhne go bhfollúnaíonn muid agus go gcruthaíonn muid ár gcuimhní féin i dteannta daoine eile, i gcaidreamh. Athchruthaítear ár gcuimhní, baineann muid athbhrí astu agus déanann muid athmhachnamh orthu, agus muid ag déanamh iarracht caidreamh a chothú a tharrthálfaidh muid ónár gcionta, caidreamh a gcuirfí ar ár gcumas tosú as an nua, agus clár phróca dreoiteach na gcuimhní a chasadh.” Gleann Crí, Meitheamh 2015 An tUachtarán Micheál D. Ó hUigínn ********
“There is a growing recognition that we must help one another understand the pasts which we share, even if our perception of those pasts frequently, and legitimately, differs.” Holkeri lecture, Queens University, Belfast May 2018
“We must remind ourselves that individual memories survive and take shape through a relationship with others; evolving over time and open to reinterpretation and reconsideration as we strive to transact a relationship that will release us from the weight of past wrongs; and that will allow a moving forward, however tentatively, to new beginnings by loosening the lid on the mouldering jar of ‘memory’.” Glencree, June 2015 President Michael D. Higgins
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