Occupation: Former President Of Ireland Birth: October 14, 1882 Death: August 29, 1975
It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense..
Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the ben….
For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and ….
We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programm….
God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must d….
I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is ….
The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and mo….
An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-int….
Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several h….
It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quar….
By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme..
We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the cou….
All history is man's efforts to realise ideals..
If liberty is not entire it is not liberty..
If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the Br….
The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknow….
When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive a….
Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction..
If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War..
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency..