Conflict Quote by Edward Rutherfurd

“Perhaps you know that you are the King of England; but why do you care?”

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— Thomas Adcock

“I don't hate the English and I don't know do I love the Irish. But I love him. I'm sure of that now. And…

— Jamie O'Neill

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

— J.G. Farrell

“If there’s no such thing as a king, why such a fuss?... Silence would have helped her to forget, but each protest made her…

— David Mains

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

— Charles Brady

“...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

“...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors,…

— David Willis McCullough

“So you would kill Old Ireland?” Anna Livia said. “You would kill yourself, for without Old Ireland, you wouldn’t be.”

— Andrew M. Greeley

“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

“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

“Chance and Destiny have between them woven two-thirds of all history, and of the history of Ireland wellnigh the whole. The literature of a…

— William Butler Yeats