Ireland Quotes

“The Irish are a rude people, subsisting on the produce of their cattle only, and living themselves like beasts.”

“Let's work together and build a new Ireland... which will be a shared Ireland, an Ireland for all, an Ireland of which we can all be proud.”

“The great evil in Ireland is the want of some system of education that would bring up the people to be good Catholics.”

“The judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson, that calamity must not be too much mitigated.”

“I love the Irish for their simplicity, their genius for generosity, and their realism.”

“An Anglo-Irishman is a Protestant with a horse.”

“I am resolved that we shall not be a provincial party... We have a nation for our party and a nation for our care.”

“In Ireland, the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.”

“The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”

“The real division of Ireland is not a line drawn on the map, but in the minds and hearts of its people.”

“The fools, the fools, the fools! — they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”

“We're Irish. It's part of who we are. It's in our music and it's in our soul.”

“How are things in Glocca Morra?”

“Being a Kerryman, in my opinion, is the greatest gift that God can bestow on any man.”

“The present form of partition is unacceptable.”

“The Troubles were not a religious war. They were a national conflict with a religious dimension.”

“That's the Irish People all over - they treat a serious thing as a joke and a joke as a serious thing.”

“I am an islander. I have a special relationship with the sea.”

“The first function of a pub is to be a pub. It's a place for coming together, for conversation, for good company.”

“That we have now reached the brink of civil war is a statement of the obvious. The present situation cannot be allowed to continue.”