Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.

St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.

Scatter my ashes on the Shannon.

I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed.

I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say, into some kind of - onto the best seller list.

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.