Ireland’s overwhelming vote in favor of marriage equality brings to mind this passage from the Cyclops episode of “Ulysses”:
“But it’s no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very opposite of that that is really life … Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.”
Well said, James Joyce – and well done, Ireland.
Ellen Deirdre Murphy
Portland
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