o'neill

I tell you, it's a conspiracy against the working man. If you're at hurling and you curse in English they send you off the field. But they won't teach you to curse in Irish. They think our native tongue is good for nothing but praying in. That's why the priests is for it. They think there's no words in it for, I don't know, anything the priests is against. They'd have us blessing ourself in Gaelic the day long. And what worth is a blessing to a working man? For an ignorant heathen whoring bastard working Irish man? (98)

Jamie O'Neill. At Swim, Two Boys. New York: Scribner, 2001.