Economy Quote by Seamus Costello

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

— Charles Stewart Parnell

“True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising. So few…

— Edward Rutherfurd

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom,…

— John Hume

From my earliest youth I have regarded the connection between Ireland and Great Britain as the curse of the Irish nation, and felt convinced,…

— Theobald of Bec

If there is a vote in Britain to leave the E.U. there is a democratic imperative to provide Irish citizens with the right to…

— Martin McGuinness

I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two…

— Margaret Thatcher

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

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland.

— James Larkin

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

— Russell Baker

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

It was the British who defined religion to divide and rule. That is what created the heat. That is what created the cut. Partition…

— Gulzar

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

— Thomas Sowell