That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
In history as in human life regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness war and peace rise...
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was...
Look into the heavens and say, “It’s my turn to make history.