Freedom Quote by John Valentine

“The whole island is spotted with derelict cottages and abandoned churches like this one. They sit in pastures as invisible to the Irish as…

— Skyler White

“It was like the violence of the world he’d grown up in had embedded itself in him, taken root, and could never be fully…

— S.E. Jakes

“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

“Ireland is but an island off the coast of Cape Clear.”

— Chuck Kruger

“In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths…

— Thomas Cahill

“For the Irish, life is a matter of perpetual grievance. We remember the Famine, but forget the Draft Riots. We seal off our neighborhoods…

— Mary Gordon

“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

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

— Thomas Adcock

“The Roman Catholic Church has known nudity from its earliest days. Jesus was baptized and crucified nude.5”

— Jim C. Cunningham

“Now the Irish women always look so ashamed. They know they can never make a Jesus. It will be just another Mick.”

— Betty Smith

“The whole island was stained in blood and haunted with the dead. Horror stories lay beneath every square foot of this awful place, and…

— John Dixon Phoenix Island