Irish Activist Quotes

Roger Casement

Thomas Osborne Davis

Thomas Davis (Young Irelander)

Frances Power Cobbe

David Norris

Eva Gore-Booth

Neil Harbisson

The starlight of heaven above us shall quiver
As our souls flow in one down eternity's river.

Thomas Osborne Davis

It's not the union between my head and the electronic eye what makes me feel 'cyborg', it's the union between the software and my brain.

If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.

Will he listen to the voice of the people, this wonderful democrat, this absolute democrat who would not recognise democracy if it came up and puked in his face?

They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived fought and drank as of yore, But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more, For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

Thomas Davis (Young Irelander)

Then the Sorcerer Science entered, and where e'er he waved his wand Fresh wonders and fresh mysteries rose on every hand.

Frances Power Cobbe

The little waves of Breffny go stumbling through my soul.