There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this.

We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

A country without a language is a country without a soul.

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.