Ireland Quote by Thomas Davis

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland.

— James Larkin

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

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

“He saw the black water and the declining sun and the swan dipping down, its white wings flashing, and slowing and slowing till silver…

— Jamie O'Neill

“It is one of their beauties, the Irish, the way they crush and expand the language all at once How they mangle it and…

— Colum McCann

“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people”

— Jan Morris

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

— Fiona Shaw

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring…

— Michael D. Higgins

“Well, they may not be civilized, but they are certainly confident--and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.”

— Thomas Cahill

“Irish heroes, for one reason or another, have come off, it must be owned, but poorly before the bar of history.”

— Emily Lawless

“There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.”

— Rhian J. Martin

“The Irish ‘peasant’ is the child of time. He is its guardian and its slave. He will preserve for centuries dull and foolish habits…

— Séan O'FaoláIn

“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.”

— Matthew Quick