Ireland Act 1949/northern Ireland%E2%80%99s Name

Famous quotes containing the words ireland, act and/or northern:

    “No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.”
    —W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)

    “The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fatuity of idiots.”
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    “You’ll wait a long, long time for anything much
    To happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloud
    And the Northern Lights that run like tingling nerves.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)