Boards Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

“not one private bank was opened in Dublin in the quarter century before 1793.”

— Thomas Sowell

“The Irish Economy Since 1922.”

— Diarmaid Ferriter

Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?

— Elizabeth Bowen

By the 1890s, the leading Wall Street bankers were becoming increasingly disgruntled with their own creation, the National Banking System... while the banking system…

— Murray Rothbard

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.

— William Hamilton Maxwell

By 2007, an uncompetitive, bloated, over-borrowed and distorted Irish economy had been left at the mercy of subsequent international events without the safeguards, institutions,…

— Enda Kenny

The Irish turned in on themselves and bid up their own land prices in the most extraordinary ways... The Irish people stepped in and…

— Michael Lewis

“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost…

— Michael Lewis

No one ever felt sorry for a banker.

— Dominic Lawson

Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful…

— Friedrich Engels

I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in…

— Sean Quinn

The Irish were treated horribly, even here in Boston. For example, in the late nineteenth century they were treated pretty much like African Americans.…

— Noam Chomsky