Comments on: Connecting the Dots with Gabriel Byrne

By: Stella

Stella — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:46:52 +0000

Hi, Mick!

You are never too late to comment on his excellency, the Ambassador! And I’m glad to hear you say he is “in tune” with the diaspora. I have that feeling, too.

There is more on the homepage now about the launch of Imagine Ireland today. We are all pretty excited, as you might guess. This is going to be a great year for Gabriel and for the Irish arts, here in the US and in Ireland. As someone on Twitter just said: Go Team Ireland!

By: Mick

Mick — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:31:11 +0000

Bit late coming in on this post, but just to say that Gabriel is a breath of fresh air when it comes to Irelands relationship with it’s diaspora. His words are genuine and he is totally in tune with the way things are and with what needs to be done. A great ambassador.

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By: Stella

Stella — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:22:47 +0000

Well, Elisabetta, I cannot speak for Mr. Byrne, but I can say for myself: I was an observant religious person for many years, then I lost my parents. Having no children, I wandered away from it all. Now I am just a nice person (most of the time). I think these things happen. Check out some of the more recent articles on our website and I think you will learn more about Mr. Byrne’s spiritual evolution over these last years….

By: Elisabetta

Elisabetta — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:58:08 +0000

Hello girls,
I just wanted to say that only 10 years ago Gabriel Byrne claimed, in the special contents of the dvd Stigmata, “…I am catholic”…
It is very strange to me that he passed form this to atheism, what happend to him in these years??

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 31 May 2010 01:43:20 +0000

Lara: I’m not talking about religion here either. I’m a confirmed agnostic. And, my Spirituality has literally saved my life. To me, the connections I feel, the Love I feel is my definition of God, or Goddess if you will. And, I don’t expect anyone else to have these same definitions, and I definitely do not consider it a creed or religion.

My point is, I’m so glad that Mr. Byrne now seems to be feeling much more connected Spiritually.

By: iamyuneek

iamyuneek — Sun, 30 May 2010 20:13:48 +0000

I just managed to see these, I was away and Ipad doesn’t allow you to download stuff like Media Player…silly Steve Jobs! I was so frustrAted that I couldn’t watch for the last 2 dyas! Anyway, my grandfather was Irish (from Drogheda, about 60 miles North of Dublin and 50 miles south of Belfast,)but sadly I never knew him, his family (my mother and 9 siblings) were raised in Cornwall in the west of England, and I was born in London, and at that time of course, Cornwall was so far away it might as well have been a foreign country, in fact when we went there for our holidays they called us Londeners “fereigners it took 8 hrs by car down the A1.

The interview was amazing, he spoke with such clarity and vision. Gabriel says he’s a fractured Irishman, but fractured or not fractured, homesick or not homesick, he has said in the past that he does not think of Ireland now, in the same as he knew it as a young man; having gone back to England many times to visit family I believe it is possible that he loves Ireland almost as much (if not more) than he did as a young man, just in a different way,

Gabriel is the Ambassador, and so should he be, long may he reign.

By: Lara

Lara — Sun, 30 May 2010 13:02:10 +0000

For me it was clear, the spirituality Gabriel Byrne was talking about is one of non-religious nature, he was emphatic about that himself. He was talking about the “spirit of Ireland” as an abstract notion that seem to connect and bring Irish people together even if they are scattered all over the world. It also seems to bring other non-Irish people towards Ireland. For instance, I feel connected to Ireland even though I’ve never been to Ireland, I’m connected to the “Irish spirit” through Irish arts and culture and Irish people I admire and it has absolutely nothing to do with being religious, atheist or anything, really. In a similar fashion, you can connect to other people through love and friendship and again, abstract notions/feelings/inspirations that are not attached to religious or non-religious principles you might have.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Sun, 30 May 2010 11:00:24 +0000

Aragarna: my point is that he is emphasizing Spirituality more now, and seems to not to be leaning so much towards atheism as he seemed to be before. I suppose one could be a spiritual atheist – though I would find it hard personally. But, if that is your belief system, of course that is fine. No argument here.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 30 May 2010 09:55:16 +0000

Great speech Mister Byrne.
My sincere congratulations for your words.