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When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet...

Quote by Francis McCourt about childhood, saints, poverty, miracle, mother, happiness, fire, fire brigade, nothing, things

And more than that, when elements within the British and Irish establishments and rejectionist unionism delayed progress, it was the IRA leadership which authorised a number of significant initiatives to enhance the peace process.

Quote by Gerry Adams about leadership, progress, numbers, peace

But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.

Quote by Gerry Adams about peace

In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.

Quote by Gerry Adams about power

Since then, there has been a vicious campaign of...

Since then, there has been a vicious campaign of vilification against republicans, driven in the main by the Irish government.

Quote by Gerry Adams

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made...

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

Quote by Gerry Adams about leadership

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave...

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

Quote by Gerry Adams about nation, people

I did have an Irish grandmother whom no one or nothing...

I did have an Irish grandmother whom no one or nothing could put down.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about nothing

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to...

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Quote by Winston Churchill

The French have a Celtic link with the Scots and the Irish. The French, with their food and their language, are much more sophisticated, much more developed.

Quote by Sean Connery about food, language

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

Quote by Sean Connery about fire, fire brigade

If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.

Quote by Mick Jagger about nation, people

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Quote by Edna O'Brien about religion, guilt

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

Quote by Flann O'Brien about politics, common sense, sense

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