The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
A few decades ago, the Irish decided they were tired of being always near the bottom of Europe's economic indicators. So they envisioned a better future for their country, and they put their people on the right road to get there.
They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.
The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.