Disillusionment Quote by James Joyce

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

— James Joyce

“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

“You suspect, Stephen retorted with a sort of a half laugh, that I may be important because I belong to the fauborgh Saint Patrice…

— James Joyce

“The 'Irish Question' has dogged English politics for four hundred years and will continue to measure out its irresolution in blood and human lives…

— Kevin Toolis

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

— Andrew M. Greeley

“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

“...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

Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions.

— Gustave de Beaumont

“Gladstone .. spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly…

— W.C. Sellar

The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

— Katharine Tynan

“He said you have to be on the side of the losers, the people with bad lungs. You have to be with those who…

— Hugo Hamilton

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

— Fiona Shaw