Irish Rebellion Quotes

“Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank and buy a revolver.”
― Constance Markievicz

“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