Ira famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.
-- Albert Reynolds -
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
-- Gerry Adams -
I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.
-- Ian Paisley -
My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.
-- Jack Higgins -
Do you really think the IRA would think me a worthwhile target ?
-- Lord Mountbatten -
Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA.
-- Martin McGuinness -
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]
-- Ovid -
Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]
-- Ovid -
What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic.
-- Peter Hain -
The reality is that when Sinn Fein gets into these talks, there will be no more options for armed republicanism, for the IRA.
-- Sean Kane -
The IRA sending a message of sympathy to America is like Jack the Ripper giving us a lesson in the sanctity of human life.
-- Simon Heffer -
The sorrow of the IRA Brighton bombing is that Thatcher escaped unscathed.
-- Steven Morrissey -
We had the IRA ceasefire in August 1994 and a lot of people assumed that a deal had been done - which wasn't right.
-- David Trimble -
During the 1996 Forum election my election agent, John Dobson, told me that at some stage down the line we were going to have to talk to the IRA and that I was the man to do it. And my reaction was not printable!
-- David Trimble -
Britain has the IRA and no one cancels concerts there.
-- Sharon Osbourne
