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 the whole lot of them put together.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

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.

An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.