"Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still,
For poetry makes nothing happen."
- W.H. AUDEN, In Memory of W.B. Yeats

"The Irish are a fair people- they never speak well of one another." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson

"The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it." - SIDNEY LITTLEWOOD, speech (1961)

"The Irish say Your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish." - MARIANNE MOORE, Spenser's Ireland

"Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
It's with O'Leary in the grave."
- W.B. YEATS, September, 1913