Civil war Quote by Ken Loach

“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

“posit by W. B. Yeats: “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”

— Anonymous

“Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.”

— Rhian J. Martin

I'm a history buff, so I've been reading lots of books on Irish and American history.

— Sheamus

The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a…

— Kevin Starr

“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

“Irish heroes, for one reason or another, have come off, it must be owned, but poorly before the bar of history.”

— Emily Lawless

“...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

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history…

— James D'arcy

I am concerned that there's a cavalier attitude to the Irish Peace Process. What poor memories some have; I remember only too well the…

— Dervla Kirwan

“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

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis