British Quote by Adolf Hitler

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

“Cromwell's punitive expedition marked a watershed in Irish history. An estimated 40 percent of the Irish population died either in the war or in…

— Thomas Sowell

“Ireland was a different place after the famine. The population was drastically reduced—an island of 8.2 million people in 1841 was reduced to 6…

— Ryan Hackney

World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.

— Martin McGuinness

The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So…

— Saoirse Ronan

We have to face up to the fact that without the armed uprising in 1916 Britain would not have withdrawn from southern Ireland.

— John McDonnell

In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British…

— Sean Lemass

I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and…

— Werner Herzog

“True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising. So few…

— Edward Rutherfurd

When my family moved from Ireland in the 70s, Britain was such a difficult place to be Irish. It was a decade of real…

— Maggie O'Farrell

Easter is not limited to the passion and death of Christ; it also includes the dismal tragedy of life unlived by the many, and…

— Michael Leunig

The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their people had…

— Tom Devine