Footnotes Quote by Arthur Guiterman

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

— Anonymous

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

— Anonymous

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

— William Butler Yeats

Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness…

— Patrick Kavanagh

Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no…

— Shana Alexander

“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”

— Oscar Wilde

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything…

— Douglas Hyde

To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.

— Philip Sidney

“He said you have to be on the side of the losers, the people with bad lungs. You have to be with those who…

— Hugo Hamilton

Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about…

— Jane Jacobs

Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for…

— Nora Roberts

“The Irish are a merry race and surely they are mad, for all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad.” The”

— Michael Capuzzo