Ireland
- John Hume*, Peace, 1998
- Séamus Heaney*, Literature, 1995
- Seán MacBride, Peace, 1974
- Samuel Beckett, Literature, 1969
- Ernest Walton, Physics, 1951
- George Bernard Shaw*, Literature, 1925
- William Butler Yeats, Literature, 1923
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Famous quotes containing the word ireland:
“Out of Ireland have we come,
Great hatred, little room
Maimed us at the start.
I carry from my mother’s womb
A fanatic’s heart.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“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)
“There is no topic ... more soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)