Irish Question Quotes

#1. In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland for nine tenths of a century, will be repealed.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#2. The Irish question is this: Do the Irish know the answer to everything? ... And the answer to that is that we know fifteen different answers to every question. All of them right.

Olivia Robertson

#3. Gladstone .. spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question, ...

W.C. Sellar

#4. The 'Irish Question' has dogged English politics for four hundred years and will continue to measure out its irresolution in blood and human lives until there is peace in Ireland.

Kevin Toolis

#5. The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

Katharine Tynan

#6. Consider Ireland ... 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.

Benjamin Disraeli

#7. Your best bet is to enjoy things when life brings you something good, and tough it out as best you can when it brings you the usual shit storm.

Dima Zales

#8. There's a period of uncertainty that comes into play upon meeting someone who interests you. It must be inherent in attraction, for I've never met anybody who hasn't experienced it, it's just a question of to what degree they're going to admit it.

Claire Fullerton

#9. I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.

Siobhan Fahey

#10. On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

Kate Adie

#11. The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

P.L. Travers

#12. I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. Myth: A stake through the heart will kill a vampire.
Truth: Well, duh. It would kill anyone.

Kimberly Pauley

#14. There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.

Linda Hogan

#15. Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

#16. The more I heard, the less I knew.

Sebastian Faulks

#17. Pre-Socratic philosophy begins ... with the discovery of Nature; Socratic philosophy begins with the discovery of man's soul."3

William B. Irvine

#18. Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind.

Louis MacNeice

#19. I'll acknowledge that I'm from Canada but I don't think I'll acknowledge that I'm Canadian.

Nicholas Thorburn

#20. I'm really not livable with when I'm rehearsing because I'm living the character.

Donald Sinden

#21. Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

Michael Davitt

#22. Do you know that an Irishman always respond to a question with another?"
And the Irish guy replies "Who told you that?

Cathy Kelly