Answers Quote by W. C. Sellar

“Gladstone .. spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly…

— W.C. Sellar

The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

— Katharine Tynan

“The 'Irish Question' has dogged English politics for four hundred years and will continue to measure out its irresolution in blood and human lives…

— Kevin Toolis

“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”

— James Joyce

“Do you know that an Irishman always respond to a question with another?" And the Irish guy replies "Who told you that?”

— Cathy Kelly

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

“He may seem the fool who has given his all, by the wise men of the world; but it was the apparent fools who…

— Patrick Pearse

The Irish question is this: Do the Irish know the answer to everything? ... And the answer to that is that we know fifteen…

— Olivia Robertson

“But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when…

— Eddie Lenihan

“The same unquestioning certainty given to English rain and Irish trouble.”

— Laura Lee Guhrke

The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

— Jack Charlton

“If Lady Brentmor told the prime minister to jump off a bridge," Fiona had once remarked, "Wellington would meekly ask, 'Which one?”

— Loretta Chase