Born Quote by William Butler Yeats

“Romantic Ireland's dead and gone It's with O' Leary in the grave (September 1913)”

— William Butler Yeats

Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this.…

— William Butler Yeats

“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 master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and…

— Frank McCourt

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

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

“And he got going from there to America. Worked his passage, I s'pose, like a lot more. And I heard he did well in…

— Eddie Lenihan

“It was like the violence of the world he’d grown up in had embedded itself in him, taken root, and could never be fully…

— S.E. Jakes

“Ireland is filled with tales and legends. It’s one of the things that makes it so special. I lost that part of me when…

— C.M. Seabrook

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

— Katharine Tynan

“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

“One of my colleagues in the Senate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once made this simple but profound observation about us Irish: “To fail to understand…

— Joe Biden

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

— Daniel Day-Lewis