Life: August 24, 1927 - September 27, 1988
Birthday: August 24
Death: September 27
Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irresistible, and ambition falls before it
source: William V. Shannon (1989). “The American Irish: A Political and Social Portrait”, p.24, Univ of Massachusetts Press
topic: Fall, Ambition, Light, Greatest Accomplishment