Brave new world Quote by Peter Murphy

“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

“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

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

— Thomas Sowell

by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which…

— Laetitia Pilkington

“Dublin fleet will be more than sufficient to meet the threat.” “But … but that’s … that’s just mad!” The man looked flustered, his”

— Nick Webb

“almost American, and Dublin working”

— Allison Parr

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

— William Allingham

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city…

— James Joyce

“For ten years Dublin’s been changing faster than our minds can handle. The economic boom has given us too many people with helicopters and…

— Tana French

“Fortunately, at that time, Ireland wasn’t in the world. So we weren’t in the World War. Old Roundrims came up with that. Brilliant, really.…

— Niall Williams

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

— Emily Lawless

“Well, they may not be civilized, but they are certainly confident--and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.”

— Thomas Cahill