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Frank Delaney Biography

Frank Delaney (24 October 1942 – 21 February 2017) was an Irish novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He was the author of the New York Times best-seller Ireland, the non-fiction book Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea, and many other works of fiction, non-fiction and collections. He was born in Tipperary, Ireland.

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The one joy that has kept me going through life has been the fact that stories unite us. To see you as you listen to me now, as you have always listened to me, is to know this: what I can believe, you can believe. And the way we all see our story-not just as Irish people but as flesh and blood individuals and not the way people tell us to see it-that's what we own, no matter who we are and where we come from.

Believe, Blood, Fact, Individuals, Listen, People

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

Difference, Differences, Enemy, Friend, Friendliness

When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man.

Come, Distance, Morning, Sleep, Walk

We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the "story" part of the word "history," and we love it trimmed out with color and drama, ribbons and bows. Listen to our tunes, observe a Celtic scroll: we always decorate our essence.

Color, Drama, Essence, Memories, Painting, Ready

Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person.

Children, Girl, Marrying, Person, Sports

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

Book, Books, Passion, Perceive, Salt

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

Heart, Libraries, Love, Love You, Mind, Places

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

Difference, Differences, Know, Love Is, Oil, Photograph

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

Believe, General, Practice, Served, World

Every pain is a lesson.

Lesson, Lessons, Pain

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

Dislikes, Likes And Dislikes, Strong, Writers, Writing

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

Kind, Pulse, Struggle, Subject

For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.

Sieges, Startling, Taken, Together, Troubles, War