1916 Quotes

“A nation which fails to adequately remember salient points of
its own history, is like a person with Alzheimer's. And that can be a
social disease of a most destructive nature.”
― S.M. Sigerson, The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened At Béal na mBláth?

“Where courage and judgement are equally required a clever coward is better than a stupid hero.”
― Michael Collins

“Redmond Howard, a politically aware witness to the Rising and a critic of the rebels, wrote in its aftermath: 'There never was, I believe, an Irish crime -- if crime it can be called -- which had not its roots in an English folly.”
― Tim Pat Coogan, 1916: The Easter Rising

“He pushed another bag along the top,
Craning his body outward; then a flare
Gave one white glimpse of No Man's Land and wire;
And as he dropped his head the instant split
His startled life with lead, and all went out.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems

“My [early] tales were strangely enough 'society' tales; strangely enough, because I know about as much of 'society' as of the Great Horned Owl.”
― Arthur Machen, Collected Fiction Volume 1: 1888-1895

“I had come out of the city, where story-telling is a manufactured science, to the country where story-telling is a by-product of life.”
― Dana Burnet, The Best American Short Stories Of 1916: And The Yearbook Of The American Short Story

“In the country, a semicircle is the shortest line between two points.”
― Dana Burnet, The Best American Short Stories Of 1916: And The Yearbook Of The American Short Story

“While Grieve was at Hillsborough Barracks, he was overwhelmed by the news of the Easter Rising in Ireland... 'If it had been possible at all,' he revealed in an interview, 'I would have deserted at that time from the British Army and joined the Irish.' Henceforth, he closely connected the Scottish and Irish struggles for autonomy.”
― Alan Bold, MacDiarmid