Freedom Quote by Michael Lewis

The Irish turned in on themselves and bid up their own land prices in the most extraordinary ways... The Irish people stepped in and…

— Michael Lewis

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

— Matthew Quick

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

— Dan Savage

“The dire poverty of the early nineteenth century Irish may be indicated by their average life expectancy of 19 years-compared to 36 years for…

— Thomas Sowell

The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish…

— James Connolly

“We have become a nation incapable of living within our means. We seem incapable of accepting the reality that owning a home is not…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Dublin housing prices are a lot like New York ones, except that in New York, you get New York for your money.”

— Tana French The Likeness

“This country’s passion for property is built into the blood, a current as huge and primal as desire. Centuries of being turned out on…

— Tana French

“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

“By 1709, the Irish owned only 14 percent of the land in their own”

— Thomas Sowell

“As of 1641, the indigenous Irish Catholics owned an estimated three-fifths of the land of Ireland but, just 24 years later,”

— Thomas Sowell

I bought a flat in Camden when I was 26, which I was extremely lucky to do. I think it's an Irish thing about…

— Laura Whitmore