Ireland Quotes - Page 5

• Whoop it up for liberty! After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won't touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and if you won't pay your rent you will be evicted same as now. But the evicting party, under command of the sheriff, will wear green uniforms and the Harp without the Crown, and the warrant turning you out on the roadside will be stamped with the arms of the Irish Republic. Now, isn't that worth fighting for?

  James Connolly

  Party, Fighting, Class

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• What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by and large, by Englishmen, who have come over from the English Civil War and are fighting in Ireland, and Cromwell is extraordinarily savage against these... Drogheda, after all, was a Protestant

  Ronald Hutton

  War, Fighting, Unique

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• By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Men, People, Chinese

  Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392

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• But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

  Hugh Dancy

  Paris, Culture, Dublin

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• But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous cottages, behind broken windows, mended with oilskin, sprung doors, and rotten door-posts, or in dark, wet cellars, in measureless filth and stench....must surely have reached the lowest stage of humanity.

  Friedrich Engels

  Lying, Dark, Race

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• To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views.

  Joe Elliott

  Views, Giving, Four Seasons

  "Me and my travels". Interview with Jon Bennett, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2008.

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• When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

  Harri Holkeri

  Catholic, Church, Problem

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• The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy

  Seamus Costello

  Race, Facts, Revolutionary

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• Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

  Patrick Pearse

  Revolutionary, Unfree

  Speech at grave of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, 1 Aug. 1915

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• They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

  Peter Mandelson

  Want, Conflict, Plunge

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• Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all probability it is a combination of the three factors listed above: the increasing number of vaccines, the large amount of mercury, and the inherent danger of the triple vaccine.....The MMR vaccine is also especially suspect because laboratories in England, Ireland, and Japan have found evidence of MMR vaccine viruses in the intestinal tracts of autistic children, but not in control group, non-autistic children.

  Bernard Rimland

  Children, Japan, Vaccines

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• I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

  Greta Scacchi

  Stay Strong, Hiking, Years

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• I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.

  Neil Jordan

  Scripts, Three, Littles

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• Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

  James Joyce

  Men, Tree, Hills

  James Joyce (2016). “JAMES JOYCE Premium Collection: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.523, e-artnow

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• Northern Ireland were in white, which was quite appropriate because three inches of snow had to be cleared from the pitch before kick off

  John Motson

  Soccer, White, Snow

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• We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century

  John Bruton

  Europe, Holocaust, Indifference

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• Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

  Russell Baker

  Point Break, Problem, British

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• The French selectors never do anything by halves; for the first international of the season against Ireland they dropped half the three-quarter line.

  Nigel Starmer-Smith

  Three, Half, Lines

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• For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

  Gerry Adams

  Government, Years, Ira

  Gerry Adams' Speech to IRA in Belfast, news.bbc.co.uk. April 6, 2005.

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• I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.

  Bill Bryson

  Paris, Water, Achievement

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• I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

  Bono

  Home, Years, Missing

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• My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

  Tony Blair

  Religious, Atheist, Dad

  "Tony Blair, on his faith and religious ideology". Interview with John Geiger, www.theglobeandmail.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

  Theodore Bikel

  Country, Art, Pride

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• On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

  Kate Adie

  Believe, Government, Media

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• I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Believe, Cities, Matter

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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