1985 In The Irish Republican Army
This is a list of events that occurred in 1985 that are related to the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
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Famous quotes containing the words irish, republican and/or army:
“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making ladies dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)
“Follow me if I advance
Kill me if I retreat
Avenge me if I die.”
—Mary Matalin, U.S. Republican political advisor, author, and James Carville b. 1946, U.S. Democratic political advisor, author. Alls Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, epigraph (from a Vietnamese battle cry)
“The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.”
—Frank S. Nugent (19081965)