The Ireland which we have dreamed of...
>The Ireland which we have dreamed of would be the home of a people who valued material wealth only as basis of right living, of a people who were satisfied with frugal comfort and devoted their leisure to the things of the spirit; a land whose countryside would be bright with cosy homesteads, whose fields would be joyous with the sounds of industry, with the romping of sturdy children, the contexts of athletic youths, the laughter of comely maidens; whose firesides would be forums for the wisdom of old age. It would, in a word, be the home of a people living the life that God desires men should live.<
- William Trevor (1994) Felicia's Journey, pp. 26-27