War Quote by David E. Stannard

“The 'Irish Question' has dogged English politics for four hundred years and will continue to measure out its irresolution in blood and human lives…

— Kevin Toolis

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

“Can one understand the presence of English literature without the absences of Irish literature? Are the presences in the former, at some level, bites…

— Rebecca Solnit

The English treatment of the Irish was appalling. It was absolutely appalling.

— Perdita Weeks

“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people”

— Jan Morris

“I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at…

— James Joyce

And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity…

— James Joyce

“There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.”

— Rhian J. Martin

“The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.”

— Mary Deasy

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic…

— Douglas Hyde

“internal disunity made Ireland vulnerable to conquest by a united Britain.”

— Thomas Sowell

“If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion…

— Pádraig Pearse