Defence Quote by Gerry Adams

To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to…

— Wolfe Tone

For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.

— John F. Kerry

“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

My Irish identity is important as it's a part of who I am.

— Dervla Kirwan

“May your neighbors respect you, Trouble neglect you, The angels protect you, And heaven accept you. Irish blessing”

— Janice Thompson

“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

“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

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

— Seamus Heaney

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with…

— James Larkin

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

— George Bernard Shaw

I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland. If…

— Francis Hughes

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

— William Butler Yeats