Children Quote by Seán Ó Faoláin

“...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

“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

“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

“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

“Ireland is filled with tales and legends. It’s one of the things that makes it so special. I lost that part of me when…

— C.M. Seabrook

“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.”

— Matthew Quick

“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

“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

“But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when…

— Eddie Lenihan

“that Young Irelandism will lead you to.” “It may lead me to danger. But it will guard me from dishonor.”

— Tim Egan

“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

“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.”

— Virginia Henley