Author: Adrian McKinty

Cites

• J. M. Synge (1)
  • IN: The Dead Yard (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: My sweet enemy was, little by little, giving over her great wariness… But Death had his grudge against me and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
    FROM: Poems and Translations from Petrarch, (1906), Poem, Ireland
• James Joyce (1)
  • IN: The Bloomsday Dead (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The only arms I allow myself to use: silence, exile and cunning.
    FROM: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, (1916), NULL, Ireland
• F. E. Weatherly (1)
  • IN: Dead I Well May Be (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And if you come, when all the flowers are dying And I am dead, as dead I well may be…
    FROM: Danny Boy, adapted from “The Londonderry Air” (trad.), (1910), Poem, UK
• Tom Waits (3)
  • IN: I Hear the Sirens in the Street (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in the street All my dreams are made of chrome I have no way to get back home
    FROM: A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun, (1978), Song, US
  • IN: The Cold Cold Ground (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Now don’t be a cry baby when there’s wood in the shed, There’s a bird in the chimney and a stone in my bed, When the road’s washed out they pass the bottle around, And wait in the arms of the cold cold ground.
    FROM: Cold Cold Ground, (1987), Song, US
  • IN: Rain Dogs (2016) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Oh how we danced with the Rose of Tralee, Her long hair black as a raven, Oh how we danced and she whispered to me, You'll never be going back home.
    FROM: Rain Dogs, (1988), Song, US
• Robert and Gale, Bob Zemeckis (1)
  • IN: I Hear the Sirens in the Street (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: MARTY MCFLY: Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me that you built a time machine … out of a DeLorean? DR EMMETT BROWN: The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?
    FROM: Back to the Future (1985), (1985), Film, US
• Jorge Luis Borges (4)
  • IN: The Cold Cold Ground (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It is rumoured that after concluding his song about the war in Ilium, Homer sang next of the war between the frogs and rats.
    FROM: The Immortal, (1949), Short Story, Argentina
  • IN: Police at the Station and they don't look friendly (2017) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: It only takes two facing mirrors to construct a labyrinth.
    FROM: Seven Nights, (1977), Book, Argentina
  • IN: Rain Dogs (2016) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Humiliation, unhappiness, discord are the ancient foods of heroes.
    FROM: On Blindness, (1983), NULL, Argentina
  • IN: Gun Street Girl (2015) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: I do not yet know what your gift is to me, but mine to you is an awesome one: you may keep your days and nights.
    FROM: Blue Tigers, (1983), Short story, Argentina
• Bhagavad Gita (1)
  • IN: Hidden River (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: O Arjuna. Why give in to this shameful weakness? You who would be the terror of thine enemies.
    FROM: Bhagavad Gita 2:3, (-150), Religious Text, NULL
• Ernest Hemingway (1)
  • IN: Fifty Grand (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: “Fifty grand is a lot of money,” I said. “No,” Jack said. “It’s just business.”
    FROM: Fifty Grand, (1927), Short Story, US
• Joseph Conrad (1)
  • IN: The Sun is God (2014) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate needs that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sigh of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
    FROM: Lord Jim, (1900), Novel, Ukraine/England
• J. M. W. Turner (1)
  • IN: The Sun is God (2014) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: The sun is God!
    FROM: NULL, (1851), NULL, UK