Best Irish History Quotes

"Ireland was united for most of its history. It's only partitioned for 100 years. We were the Irish Republican Army, not the United Ireland Army."

"The Irish DNA Atlas is a powerful genetic tool that researchers have built to untangle the origins of the peoples of modern Ireland."

"This collaborative study...revealing fine-scale population structure and history within Ireland, established the most comprehensive record we possess about who populated Ireland, when they arrived, and how they interacted with the peoples already there."

"Our work informs on Irish history; we have demonstrated that the structure emerging from genetic similarity within Ireland mirrors historical kingdoms of Ireland."

"Humans have continuously inhabited Ireland for around 10,000 years."

"In Ireland's long history, whatever's been thrown at them - famines, plague, war with Vikings, and centuries-long English and British rule - they have always stood back up and fought to do things for themselves and to remain who they are as a people."

"We were despicable to the Irish and it should not have happened."

"The Proclamation of the Irish Republic is a hugely important document to the history of Ireland and to the Irish people."

"The Wicklow Mountains, while only ten miles south of Dublin, feel remote, remote enough to have been a handy refuge for the Irish who opposed English rule."

"History suggests that throughout the famine, most Irish people got on with their lives as best they could. It was the worst tragedy in Irish history."

"Ireland is a land so rich in history and mythology it is difficult to know where one begins and the other ends."

"Secret of Kells is a love letter to Ireland its history its mythology and most of all its artwork"

"I'm already so in love with it. I mean, because this is the fifth book to a series, there's so much that's happened, the narrative just basically starts with a bang."

"The great catastrophe of British government and British imperialism: Ireland."

"it came to be regarded as one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice in Irish history"

"For the first time on such a scale in Irish history they planned a major joint operation with the Irish Army."

"That treasure is the Tara brooch."

"Michael Collins was a military mind behind Irish independence."

"He was also a ruthless guerrilla who made a compromise for peace."

"Make me a scapegoat if you will, but let's save the country."

"De Valera's responsibility for Collins's death lies in the fact that he helped to create the overall situation of civil war."

"Events at Crossbarry would go down in history as the largest engagement of the Irish War of Independence."

"Ireland's greatest High King Brian Buu from here he could basically rule the river."

"I think with the hunger strike, Bobby Sands and over a hundred thousand people, that's true. I think what happened in there is to understand that the Irish couldn't be broken."

"The Irish language, of course, had been the language of the majority of the Irish people right up until the famine."

"The necessity for de-Anglicizing Ireland, his speech was to have a far-reaching and profound effect on Irish cultural history."

"Church registers become extremely important for Irish immigrant research not only because they can tell you specific places in Ireland that your ancestor might have come from, but because they're going to give you witnesses to marriages and sponsors to baptisms."

"Ireland finds its roots of the very things that makes it a republic today within the Irish Parliament."

"...we spoke Irish up until the British rule and it wasn't until the early 1900s and 1916 that we regained our independence, but we never regained our native tongue fully..."

"Unfortunately, these jewels were stolen in what is Ireland's weirdest historical mystery and their biggest ever heist."

"In Ireland we should substitute the name of Catholic, Protestants, and Dissenter for the common united name of Irishmen."

"The Irish man's Revenge is complete. Victorious in defeat over his recent foes, over his more ancient foe, he dictates to both their politics."

"The Tuatha Dé Danann were the fifth race of invaders into Ireland."

"Many of these High Kings were just of legend, but throughout the Middle Ages, there were numerous rulers who were formally declared High Kings of Ireland on the ceremonial Hill of Tara."

"Enniskillen castle is not only a monument to Maguires and Coles, it is a reminder of a storied past which has shaped our present."

"The story of the modern Irish banking hall begins in 1731 in the Irish Houses of Parliament on College Green in Dublin."

"It lifted the silence and was something to relieve the stigma and shame which Irish society had placed on them."

"The key thing was to fight, to strike a blow, to maintain a tradition, to carry on the succession of rebellions."

"It seems that some sort of process of ethnogenesis took place within Ireland where this group branched off to become really distinct from the settled Irish population."

"The Act of Union created the matrix for modern Irish history."

"For unionists, it became the thing that they would cling to tightly and fight to protect; for nationalists, it became the thing that must be overthrown."

"The Battle of the Boyne is one of the most famous events in Irish history."

"The truth is complex and attitudes in Ireland toward the rising have swayed back and forth over the past Century."

"For while many Irish men and women were willing to fight and die for their independence from Britain, tragically many of the people they fought were often their own."

"The age of Saints and Scholars was when the rest of Europe was in the Dark Ages, but we in Ireland had all the scholars."

"Glory-o' to the brave men who died, For the cause of long down-trodden man, Glory-o' to Mount Leinster's own darling and pride, Kelly; the boy from Killane."

"One of the most tragic periods of Irish history occurred in the 1840s and 50s, known as the Irish Potato Famine."

"After more than five decades of near ceaseless warfare, a coalition of Irish Kings led by the rulers of Brega and Leinster came together in a vast alliance."

"Welcome home, it's Irish family history with curious news and notes."