Time Quote by Niall Williams

“If there were only three Irishmen in the world you'd find two of them in a corner talking about the other.”

— Brandan Araoz Maria

“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”

— James Joyce

“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

“Such brutishness was beyond the English capacity for tolerance. Especially when the vulgarians in question occupied such lovely lands. So, as they had for…

— David E. Stannard

“...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

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

— Thomas Sowell

World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.

— Martin McGuinness

“I was beginning to understand how the Irish mentality worked. The more foolish, illogical or surreal one's actions were perceived t be (and mine…

— Tony Hawks

“He may seem the fool who has given his all, by the wise men of the world; but it was the apparent fools who…

— Patrick Pearse

“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Another brave new world beckoned, but Dublin was dubious – too often hope had been trampled down by foreign armies or strangled in dark…

— Peter Murphy

“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