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"I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

#IrisMurdoch in the novel "The Red and the Green" set in the Ireland of 1916, and of which Damien Kiberd says, “beneath the surface traditionalism…the modern world struggles to be born.”

A post on the philosophy of the novel: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2016/02/08/murdoch-being-irish/