![]() "'That was excellently observed', say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. "There is no disagreement that can't be solved with a good cup of tea, in the face." The Nualas, 1990sģ1. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish TimesĢ4. Women caught in conflicts are too often seen only as victims when they are also positive agents for change, UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region Mary Robinson has said. "I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system." Mary Robinson, 1990 "The vote, I thought, means nothing to women, we should be armed." Edna O'Brien writing in Girls in their Married Bliss, 1964Ģ3. This part of the tale was perhaps written around the 11th century.Ģ2. From this day till Sunday, shall thy respite be! Warrior, mighty, famous, All the earth's fair treasures shall to thee be given Everything be thine!" Medb, in a part of the epic Táin Bó Cúailnge detailing the fight between Ferdiad and Cúchulainn. ![]() "To thee, foremost champion, I will give my ringed brooch. “No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation no man has a right to say to his country – thus far shalt thou go and no further.”Ģ1. "I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgement of God on these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands with so much innocent blood and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future, which are satisfactory grounds for such actions which cannot otherwise but work remorse and regret." Oliver Cromwell in the aftermath of the Drogheda massacre, 1649 Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes was a modern day Peig, 1996ġ9. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. ![]() The repeated line during Panti Bliss’s Noble Call speech at the Abbey Theatre in 2014ġ8. "G'way, ye wife-swapping sodomites" Una Bean Mhic Mhathuna challenging pro-divorce campaigners during the 1995 referendum 17. "From my earliest youth I have regarded the connection between Ireland and Great Britain as the curse of the Irish nation, and felt convinced, that while it lasted this country would never be free or happy." Wolfe Tone, 1798ġ6. Opening line of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, 1916ġ5. “In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.” "We serve neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland." The banner on Liberty Hall during the first World War, 1914 14. "What have you done for Ireland? How have you answered the Call? Are you pleased with the part you're playing in the job that demands us all? Have you changed the tweed for the khaki to serve with rank and file, as your comrades are gladly serving, or isn't it worth your while?" An extract from a first World War recruitment poster from 1915.ġ3. "Seanabhean is ea mise anois go bhfuil cos léi insan uaigh is an chos eile ar a bruach." / "I am an old woman now with one foot in the grave and the other on its edge." Peig Sayer's opening gambit, 1936ġ2. I would be ashamed of my own name and my murdered husband's name if I did… Long live the Republic!" Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, 193ġ1. I recognise it as no crime to be in my own country. "Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver." Countess Markiewicz, October 1915ġ0. "I recognise no partition. “I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.”ĩ. Sinead O’Connor on Saturday Night Live 8. "Fight the real enemy." Sinead O'Connor rips up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live, 1992
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