Quote by John le Carré

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

— J.G. Farrell

“internal disunity made Ireland vulnerable to conquest by a united Britain.”

— Thomas Sowell

“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

“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

The English treatment of the Irish was appalling. It was absolutely appalling.

— Perdita Weeks

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

— Thomas Adcock

“The same unquestioning certainty given to English rain and Irish trouble.”

— Laura Lee Guhrke

Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.

— Enda Kenny

“I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at…

— James Joyce

“Half the country wouldn’t have died if the landlords hadn’t kept shipping away the corn, seizing cattle, rack-renting, evicting, torching cabins…Or if the government…

— Emma Donoghue

“You were an American now and don’t let him hear you call yourself an Irish-American or a German-American.”

— Mary Beth Smith

“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