History Quote by David Willis McCullough

“There are kings on every other bush in Ireland.”

— Charles Brady

“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

“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

“The Irish ‘peasant’ is the child of time. He is its guardian and its slave. He will preserve for centuries dull and foolish habits…

— Séan O'FaoláIn

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

— James Joyce

“...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

“Such brutishness was beyond the English capacity for tolerance. Especially when the vulgarians in question occupied such lovely lands. So, as they had for…

— David E. Stannard

“We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again.”

— Karen Marie Moning

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

— Brandan Araoz Maria

“You were born here. You and your children will have American stories, and they’ll be better than any sorrowful Irish tales. At the end,…

— Susan Denning

“Once he said to me in the height of his imperial propaganda, 'Tell those young men in Ireland that this great thing must go…

— W.B. Yeats