Britain Quote by Theobald of Bec

When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the…

— Sara Coleridge

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

— Russell Baker

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic…

— Douglas Hyde

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

— Seamus Heaney

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

— Thomas Sowell

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

My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my…

— James Stephens

“. . . I still hold two truths with equal and fundamental certainty. One: the British did terrible things to the Irish. Two: the…

— John Dominic Crossan

You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our…

— Patrick Pearse

The first thing to recognize is how fortunate Ireland is to be an island off the west coast of Europe, and therefore helped by…

— Mary Robinson

No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the…

— Daniel O'Connell

When my family moved from Ireland in the 70s, Britain was such a difficult place to be Irish. It was a decade of real…

— Maggie O'Farrell