3 Quotes by Dennis Cronin

The departure of the bishop and his acolytes was like the shot of a starting pistol. The same people who just twenty minutes earlier had been on their knees praying for the salvation of their souls now jostled for space around the many stalls serving drink. The quest for everlasting life in God’s eternal home could wait, they were badly in want of a pint.

As they approached perpendicularity, the boat gave a slight but disquieting shudder, and at the zenith of each rotation, while he was momentarily motionless, Michael could feel that gravity was starting to exert its downward pull on his body before the return swoop restored his attachment to his seat, albeit briefly. “Go aisy or we’ll end up in the fecking lake.

For many, the American dream was short-lived; slavery may have been abolished but the ships that sailed into New York harbour brought a plentiful supply of cheap labour to power the wheels of industry and tend to the needs of the better off. It is in the nature of human avarice to exploit the less fortunate.