"It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it …"

"When Christianity was brought to her shores it was received with a joy and eagerness, and held with a tenacity of whi…"

"Next to her services to religion, Ireland's greatest contribution to the welfare of humanity has been the example of …"

"Ireland has produced in Dean Swift perhaps the greatest satirist in the English language; in Edmund Burke probably th…"

"Ireland's music is of a singular beauty. Based on pentatonic scale its melodies reach back to a period anterior to th…"

"The Irish genius has always stressed spiritual and intellectual rather than material values."

"In this day, if Ireland is faithful to her mission, and, please God, she will be, if as of old she recalls men to for…"

"Nature never intended me to be a partisan leader … Every instinct of mine would indicate that I was meant to be a dye…"

"For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat E…"

"The ideal Ireland that we would have, the Ireland that we dreamed of, would be the home of a people who valued materi…"