Ireland Quotes

“Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”

“Every Irishman has a potatoe in his head.”

“Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”

“The dust of some is Irish earth,
Among their own they rest.”

“It wasn’t the gays who trashed marriage (in Ireland); it was the straights.”

“Only those without a drop of Celtic blood believe there’s any magic in the Irish.”

“There is one thing that the people of Ireland know how to do and that is to survive.”

“God and nature have joined England and Ireland together. It is impossible to separate them.”

“In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.”

“The common law of England is the common law of Ireland, where the latter is not altered by statute.”

“The groves of Blarney
They look so charming
Down by the purling
Of sweet, silent brooks.”

“Decisions of the Irish Courts, though entitled to the highest respect. are not binding on English Judges.”

“Whether on the scaffold high
Or on the battle-field we die,
Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall.”

“War tore the guts out of the British empire, weakening it in resources and morale. The first major loss was Ireland.”

“The American people know how profoundly Ireland has affected our national heritage and our growth into a world power.”

“For the great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry,
And all their songs are sad.”

“The Irish, in many ways, are a great people—but they carry a grudge to absurd lengths. They have far too long a memory for their own wrongs.”

“We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than a foe.”

“O, love is the soul of a true Irishman;
He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,
With his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green.”

“The women of Ireland have been voting and fighting on all kinds of issues. There's no question but that there would be a literature coming out of their experiences.”