"Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable."
— Irish people

January 1, 1970

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Paul Keating, speaking in 1992, as quoted in "Ned Kelly and 'Mary Poppins' writer among top Irish-Australians" by Pádraig Collins, in The Irish Times (19 August 2009)