People
Famous residents of Donabate and Portrane include media guru Terry Prone, Irish actor Stephen Rea, journalist Charlie Weston and rock band The Delorentos. Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Irish writer who lived in Newbridge House and is known today as a social reformer, feminist theorist and pioneer animal rights activist. Ciara Geraghty, Irish Author
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep a man from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“... we’ve allowed a youth-centered culture to leave us so estranged from our future selves that, when asked about the years beyond fifty, sixty, or seventy—all part of the average human life span providing we can escape hunger, violence, and other epidemics—many people can see only a blank screen, or one on which they project fear of disease and democracy.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)