Anglo Irish Quotes

“What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history”
― Peter Cunningham, The Sea and the Silence

“Good God, man!” The major general exploded and thumped the well-padded arm of the chair with his fist, a length of ash fell from the end of the cigar and landed on the rug where Kruger nosed it quizzically to determine if it was edible. “This is not any other killing, this is a recipe for an uprising. The bloody country is on the brink of civil war and I’m damned if it will start in my patch on my watch. You will hold that inquest tomorrow morning... the longer this thing drags on the more dangerous it becomes.”
― Dennis Cronin, Michael Sweeney