The Graves Are Walking Quotes

“Until my father died … he never said England without adding ‘Goddamn her,’” recalled Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who, like tens of thousands of other first-generation Irish-Americans, received her Anglophobia like “mother’s milk” from her parents.”
― John Kelly, The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People

“But the relief policies that England employed during the famine—parsimonious, short-sighted, grotesquely twisted by religion and ideology—produced tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of needless deaths. The intent of those policies may not have been genocidal, but the effects were.”
― John Kelly, The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People

“A few weeks later, in Parliament, Daniel O’Connell read a list of the provisions Ireland had exported to Britain during the scarcity year of 1845: two hundred thousand head of livestock, two million quarters of grain, and several hundred million pounds of flour. Should Britain fail to display generosity in the present circumstance, said O’Connell, her failure would become eternally lodged in the deepest ventricle of Irish memory. “There are five millions of people … on the verge of starvation … and I am speaking from the depth of my conviction when I [say] that … I believe the result of neglect … in the present instance will be death to an enormous amount.”
― John Kelly, The Graves are Walking