Famous quotes containing the words irish, nationalism and/or history:
“I was the rector’s son, born to the anglican order,
Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;
The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept
With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
“The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)