There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.