| Author |
Quotes |
| Charles Stewart Parnell | Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England . . . Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation. |
| Dr William Drennan | Arm of Erin, prove strong, but be gentle as brave, And, uplifted to strike, still be ready to save; Not one feeling of vengeance presume to defile The cause or the men of the Emerald Isle. |
| Dr William Drennan | When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good. The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone In the ring of this world, the most precious stone. |
| John Kells Ingram | The dust of some is Irish earth, Among their own they rest. |
| John Locke | 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. |
| John Millington Synge | There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. |
| John Millington Synge | If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized. |
| John Philpot Curran | Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea. Each blade of thy meadows my faithful heart prizes, Thou queen of the west, the world's cushla ma chree. |
| Richard Alfred Milliken | The groves of Blarney They look so charming Down by the purling Of sweet, silent brooks. |
| Richard Alfred Milliken | When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. |
| T D Sullivan | Whether on the scaffold high Or on the battle-field we die, Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England, but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one. |
| George Bernard Shaw | An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. |
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