Denis Patrick Moran Quotes
We can never beat England, can’t even remain long in a fight with her on her own terms. All we can do, and it should be enough, is to remain Irish in spite of her, and work out our destiny in the very many fields in which we are free to do so.
Denis Patrick Moran, 1872-1936, Irish Nationalist and Writer, Editor, New Ireland Review, The Philosophy of Irish Ireland, 1905
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He later settled for Home Rule in the Irish Treaty of 1922
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Very few countries make such overt recognition of the arts and their cultural heritage a part of their constitutions. Even nations which are fanatic about their cultures such as France do not have such overt constitutional provisions.
Nguyen Ai Quoc was early pseudonym.
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