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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland QUOTES

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland QUOTES

1 " The Irish Times ran an editorial in 1956, full of dark intimations that the Irish would become like other indigenous peoples who had lost out in the Darwinian struggle for survival: ‘What matters is that we will disappear as a composite race. We will add our name or names to those of the races that assimilate us; but as an entity, we will cease to exist.’32 "

― Fintan O'Toole , We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

2 " Yet the idea of American investment was potent. To open the Irish economy up so that British bosses could employ Irish workers was to admit defeat. To have American firms in small Irish towns would be to embrace a thrilling modernity and simultaneously to reconnect with the great Irish-American diaspora in whom so much hope – from tourist dollars to support for the national cause of ending partition – had been invested "

― Fintan O'Toole , We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

3 " the uncensorable power of the simplest form of private literature: the letter home. "

― Fintan O'Toole , We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland