Diarmaid Ferriter > Quotes

“Commission for Justice and Peace”
― Diarmaid Ferriter, Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s

“Batt O’Connor, who was close to Collins, referred to the women ‘mudslinging and name calling and spitting and frothing to the mouth like angry cats … I think the Irish people will not be in a hurry again to elect women to represent them.’19”
― Diarmaid Ferriter, Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War

“So many decisions are destroyed by people’s discussion on problems about the implementation. He worked always on the basis of let’s get the principle agreed first and then farm out the implementation to somebody else.”
― Diarmaid Ferriter, What If? Alternative Views of Twentieth-Century Irish History: An Entertaining and Thought-Provoking Counter-History of Twentieth-Century Ireland

“Reason rather than faith has been my master … I have felt for some time that this doctrine of mine ill fitted me to be leader of the republican party … nature never fashioned me to be a partisan leader … For the sake of the cause I allowed myself to be put into a position which it is impossible for one of my outlook and personal bias to fill with effect for the party … every instinct of mine would indicate that I was meant to be a dyed-in-the-wool Tory, or even a Bishop, rather than the leader of a revolution.”
― Diarmaid Ferriter, Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War

“The Irish Economy Since 1922.”
― Diarmaid Ferriter, Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s