Ireland Quote by Robert Peel Download Open image “Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.” — Robert Peel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ireland Northern ireland Provocation Said Severity
The English treatment of the Irish was appalling. It was absolutely appalling. — Perdita Weeks Copy Share Image
Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise. — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Cursing is heavily used in the Irish language. It's not a stretch for me, and I have no qualms about it. It doesn't fall… — Paula Malcomson Copy Share Image
If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I really do think that in life, people just want to talk about their problems. In particular, Irish people and English people don't really… — CMAT Copy Share Image
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves. — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
If the spirit of the Reform Bill implies merely, a careful review of institutions, civil and ecclesiastical, undertaken in a friendly temper, combining, with… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
I shall leave a name execrated by every monopolist...but it may be...sometimes remembered with expressions of goodwill in the abodes of those whose lot… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
If wheat were at this moment subject to a duty of twenty shillings the quarter, and if Indian corn were virtually excluded, next winter… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of… — John Hume Copy Share Image
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour — James Connolly Copy Share Image
I love playing in Ireland and I've had great support here, like I get everywhere. — Jimmy White Copy Share Image
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Ireland's always going to be my home, but so much is filmed in L.A., so you have to spend time out here. — Sarah Bolger Copy Share Image
Home, for me, is with the people who I really love - whether that's in England with my family, Ireland with my relatives, or… — Alice Merton Copy Share Image
“The host is rushing 'twixt day and night, And where is there hope or deed as fair? Caoilte tossing his burning hair, And Niamh… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm a massive Greggs fan! I never actually knew about Greggs when I lived over in Ireland but the minute I came over everyone… — Maura Higgins Copy Share Image
