Modern world Quote by Ryan Hackney

“by 1891, nearly two-fifths of all living people born in Ireland were living outside Ireland.”

— Thomas Sowell

We have long had emigration in Ireland. But the nature of emigration has changed. With ferries to Britain and the continent, as well as…

— Mary Robinson

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the…

— John Bright

I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and…

— Werner Herzog

“Ireland was a different place after the famine. The population was drastically reduced—an island of 8.2 million people in 1841 was reduced to 6…

— Ryan Hackney

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

— Anne Enright

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed…

— John McGahern

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic…

— Fiona Shaw

I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I'm very proud that I'm Irish American, though I don't know exactly where my ancestors came from. I…

— Michael Connelly

“It is a mistake to suppose that, in a country where the usual evidences of civilization exist, the condition of a very large body…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

— Seamus Heaney

I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still…

— Stuart Townsend