West Cork Quotes & Sayings

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people. — Henry Lawson

The west and southwest of Ireland bore the brunt of the famine. Those areas, including Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon, Galway, Clare, and Cork, were the poorest regions of the island, and the most dependent on subsistence farming. Not coincidentally, these were also the areas that Catholic Irish had been sent to during the Protestant plantation. — Ryan Hackney

Time travelers tend, as a group, to have a lot of hobbies. — Steven Johnson

It is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race. — Adolf Hitler

Stay diagnostic even as you take action. — Ronald A. Heifetz

Nellie Cashman, from Midleton, County Cork, made a mint providing "bed, board, and booze" to the gold and silver miners all over the western US and Canada. She was a prodigious entrepreneur, running and owning numerous stores, restaurants, and hotels in various mining settlements. While working the bar of her hotel, canny Nellie was able to buy a number of very lucrative mines by discretely listening to the gossip of drunken prospectors. — Rashers Tierney

The ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage. — Mikhail Gorbachev

True," Bramblestar grunted. — Erin Hunter

How you define an event produces emotion
and determines how you feel going forward — Derric Yuh Ndim

Nobody lives a small life. No one is forgotten by the universe. — Laura Lynne Jackson