Quotes from Tim Egan

Beyond these shores, whenever two or more Irishmen are gathered together, everything almost can be done.

Fear, like self-pity, is a prison of its own making.

But—damn it all—why does money have to be the marker of a man? That was the thing about America he most despised, measuring existence by the size of one's pile.

that Young Irelandism will lead you to." "It may lead me to danger. But it will guard me from dishonor.

peripatetic, globe-roaming mariner Captain James

The Irish killed themselves with liquor, with accidents prompted by drink, with neglect, with disease, with violence, but would never end their lives by their own hands, for that would ensure that misery followed them to eternity.

British Empire had demonstrated that there was no greater blind spot on its map of benevolence than the conquered land closest to home.

The greatest empire the world had yet seen got its start with the conquest of Ireland back in 1171. And tiny Ireland was still the most troublesome turf under the Union Jack. China, India, entire subcontinents, could be subdued with less firepower than it took to keep the Irish in place.

It is the soulless American who has no heart, who has no thought beyond putting a mighty dollar out at mighty interest, who has no zest for any other book than his soulless ledger.

The "quality of the Irish," the president concluded, is "the remarkable combination of hope, confidence and imagination." In

immigrant to live in the United States for twenty-five years before becoming eligible for citizenship.

quality of the Irish," the president concluded, is "the remarkable combination of hope, confidence and imagination.

An iron will, no matter how lyrically shaped, they had to know, never beats an iron fist.

Meagher's Ireland.

But just as he had made merry music with his clarinet at Stonyhurst while under suspension,