"Thus you have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question."
— Irish people

January 1, 1970

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Benjamin Disraeli, speech in the British House of Commons February 16, 1844; cited from Robert Blake Disraeli (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1966) p. 179