It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.

A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.

As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

There are three things without which there is no country--common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannot support itself in peace and social union.

They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived fought and drank as of yore, But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more, For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

They're trying to make fuel cells a reality. They want to bring the hydrogen economy to the United States.

It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.