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"Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away."
"What Ireland needs now above all else is peace."
"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow."
"The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea."
"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff."
"I must say that though other days may not be so bright, as we look toward the future, that the brightest days will continue to be those we spent with you here in Ireland."