History Quote by William Butler Yeats

“What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person…

— Frank Delaney

“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

“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”

— Oscar Wilde

“You were born here. You and your children will have American stories, and they’ll be better than any sorrowful Irish tales. At the end,…

— Susan Denning

“...there was always hunger in Ireland. She was a country that liked to be hurt. The Irish heaped coals of fire upon their own…

— Colum McCann

“You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you…

— Mary Deasy

“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

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

— Emily Lawless

“A real Irishman will give everything of himself--except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples.”

— Jim Tully Beggars Abroad

“Can one understand the presence of English literature without the absences of Irish literature? Are the presences in the former, at some level, bites…

— Rebecca Solnit

“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark…

— Eilis Flynn

“Once he said to me in the height of his imperial propaganda, 'Tell those young men in Ireland that this great thing must go…

— W.B. Yeats