"Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!"
"A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation."
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Source: Thomas Osborne Davis (1865). “Literary and Historical Essays”, p.174
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