"In valley green, on towering crag, Our fathers fought before us, And conquered 'neath the same old flag That's proudl…"

"History that challenges comfortable assumptions about the group is painful, but it is, as Michael Howard said, a mark…"

"Up to mighty London Came an Irishman one day. As the streets are paved with gold Sure, everyone was gay, Singing song…"

"Soldiers are we, whose lives are pledged to Ireland, Some have come from a land beyond the wave, Sworn to be free, no…"

"One day at a luncheon in London, [Dutch journalist ] was seated next to a man prominent in British politics. "You are…"

"The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, a…"

"I have long wished that the Irish literature were cultivated. Ireland is known by tradition to have been once the sea…"

"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow."

"Jack Judge, "It's a Long Way To Tipperary" (1912)"

"In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs."