In Ireland

 

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constant occurs. (Sir John Pentland Mahaffy)

 

Ireland has outlived the failure of all her hopes – and yet she still hopes. (Roger Casement)

 

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism. (Lydia M. Child).

 

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. (Maria Edgeworth)

 

The men of Ireland are mortal and temporal, but hills are eternal. (George Bernard Shaw).

 

Ireland is the land of dreams, of the liquid word, of the coloring of language that can’t be done, I think, in any other country in the world. (Ann Murray)

 

Ireland is a country in which the political conflicts are at least genuine: they are about something. They are about patriotism, about religion, or about money: the three great realities. (G. K. Chesterton)

 

Gladstone … spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question. (W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yearman)

 

Irish poets, learn your trade,

Sing whatever is well made …

Sing the peasantry, and then

Hard-riding country gentlemen,

The holiness of monks, and after

Porter-drinkers’ randy laughter.

(W. B. Yeats)

 

When I was writing In the Shadow of the Glen, I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow House where I was staying that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen. (J. M. Synge)