Old times Quote by Samuel Butler

Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set…

— James Connolly

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

— Seamus Heaney

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people…

— Stephen Rea

Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.

— Crispin Glover

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland.

— James Larkin

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

I don't think we in Ireland have to follow slavishly what other countries have done. Ireland has its own strengths - in family life,…

— Mary Robinson

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

— Henry David Thoreau

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

— James Connolly

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

Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where…

— Michael D. Higgins