Remembrance Quote by Andrew M. Greeley

“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”

— James Joyce

“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.”

— Virginia Henley

“...there was always hunger in Ireland. She was a country that liked to be hurt. The Irish heaped coals of fire upon their own…

— Colum McCann

“Ireland had clung to her youth, indeed to her childhood, longer and more tenaciously than any other country in Europe, resisting Change, Alteration, Reconstruction…

— Seán Ó Faoláin

“Surely there’s no need to abandon one’s reason simply because one is in Ireland.”

— J.G. Farrell

“So, Anna, did you know That when you kill yourself Those you say you love, They die too?”

— Terri Fields

“What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person…

— Frank Delaney

“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.”

— Thomas Adcock

“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.”

— Matthew Quick

“If there were only three Irishmen in the world you'd find two of them in a corner talking about the other.”

— Brandan Araoz Maria

“Fortunately, at that time, Ireland wasn’t in the world. So we weren’t in the World War. Old Roundrims came up with that. Brilliant, really.…

— Niall Williams

“If you want to kill yourself, kill what you don’t like. I had an old self that I killed. You can kill yourself too,…

— Vargus