Dead and gone Quote by William Butler Yeats

For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

— 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

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

“He decides it is better to die in Ireland than in Paris because in Ireland the outdoors looks like the outdoors and gravestones are…

— Alison MacLeod

“I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for…

— Thomas Drummond

“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

“An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.”

— Mary Deasy

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

— Edward Abbey

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— Christina Baker Kline

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

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

“If my grandfather was here, he would have died laughing ... Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man can be…

— Stephen J. Joyce