Quote by Robert Emmet

Ireland is not in a good place at the moment. We have our own humiliation of losing our economic sovereignty, and we're now regaining…

— Mary Robinson

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

— Russell Baker

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

“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

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

— William Butler Yeats

By 2007, an uncompetitive, bloated, over-borrowed and distorted Irish economy had been left at the mercy of subsequent international events without the safeguards, institutions,…

— Enda Kenny

“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

There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations…What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes,…

— Daniel O'Connell

“If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion…

— Pádraig Pearse