Ireland Quotes - Page 10

• Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.

  Thomas Keneally

  Dog, Australia, Ships

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• It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland will soon find himself welded into the agency of his country's subjection to England.

  Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

  Country, Agency, England

  "Rossa's Recollections 1838 to 1898: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary". Book by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, p. 145-6, 1972.

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• The fierce pulsation of resurgent pride that disclaims servitude may one day cease to throb in the heart of Ireland - but the heart of Ireland will that day be dead. While Ireland lives, the brain and the brawn of her manhood will strive to destroy the last vestige of British rule in her territory

  Thomas MacDonagh

  Heart, Pride, Brain

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• Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.

  Lydia M. Child

  Heart, Glowing, Age

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 33, 1843.

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• like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

  Jennifer Stone

  Mother, Tissues, Scar

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• If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

  Janet Campbell Hale

  Country, Italian, America

  Janet Campbell Hale (1998). “Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter”, p.20, University of Arizona Press

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• My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.

  Brian Dennehy

  Stars, Real, Hero

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• The Irish question is this: Do the Irish know the answer to everything? ... And the answer to that is that we know fifteen different answers to every question. All of them right.

  Olivia Robertson

  Different, Answers, Fifteen

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• The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.

  Colm Toibin

  Book, Gay, Men

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• Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.

  John Edward

  Records, Unions, Historic

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• That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

  Iris Murdoch

  Wish, Awful, Breathe

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.151, Penguin

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• From my earliest youth I have regarded the connection between Ireland and Great Britain as the curse of the Irish nation, and felt convinced, that while it lasted, this country would never be free or happy. In consequence, I determined to apply all the powers which my individual efforts could move, in order to separate the two countries.

  Theobald of Bec

  Country, Moving, Individual Effort

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• I have seen the Indian in his forests, and the Negro in his chains, and thought, as I contemplated their pitiable condition, that I saw the very extreme of human wretchedness; but I did not then know the condition of unfortunate Ireland...In all countries, more or less, paupers may be discovered; but an entire nation of paupers is what was never seen until it was shown in Ireland.

  Gustave de Beaumont

  Country, May, Saws

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• Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions.

  Gustave de Beaumont

  Country, Littles, Raises

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• There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.

  James Connolly

  Rights, Europe, Perfect

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.142, Pluto Press

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• Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland

  Phil Thompson

  Football, Play, Northern Ireland

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• I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over the world, but this is the place I come back to and the place where I find it easiest to write.

  Michael Scott

  Taken, Home, Writing

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• According to a brand new report, alcohol abuse in Ireland is on the rise. Mainly because the guy who didn't drink now does.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Humor, Guy

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• England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.

  Edmund Burke

  History, Together, Littles

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.404, University of Chicago Press

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• In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British armies at the outbreak of the Great War, but it must, in their honour and fairness to their memories, be said that they were motivated by the highest purpose, and died in their tens of thousands in Flanders and Gallipoli, believing that they were giving their lives in the cause of human liberty everywhere, including Ireland.

  Sean Lemass

  Memories, War, Believe

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• I joined the British Army because she stood between Ireland and an enemy common to our civilization, and I would not have her (Britain) say that she defended us while we did nothing at home but pass resolutions.

  Francis Ledwidge

  Home, Army, Civilization

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• More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.

  David Frum

  War, Fighting, History

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• An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.

  Eamon de Valera

  Real, Independent, Islands

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• The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

  Gerry Adams

  Winning, Way Forward, Hymns

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.

  Clare Short

  Peace, Anger, Mean

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