1921 Quotes

“We’re born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“There is no disgrace in peace. There can never be dishonor in peace.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“plenipotentiary.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“The air was liquid spice.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“powerful it can starve a whole continent. You wield the greatest aggregate of material force ever concentrated in the hands of one power; and, while canting about your championship of small nations, you use it to crush out liberty in ours. We are a small people with a population dwindling without cessation under your rule. Nevertheless, we accept your challenge and will fight you with the same determination, with the same resolve, as the American States, north and south, put into their fight for freedom against your empire.”4”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“exactly, ‘I think a curse should rest on me—because I love this war. I know it’s smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment—and yet—I can’t help it—I enjoy every second of it.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“element in men…in some men…that requires a battle. Combat is how they define themselves, and when such men rise to leadership they can indulge their passion. If they didn’t have this war, they would manufacture another one.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“The Irish loved gossip even more than funerals.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“Constance, Countess Markievicz,”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“Oscar Wilde once said, ‘Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“In 1912 Henry had summed up the situation in the last article he wrote while working for the Limerick Leader: “Ireland has no strong voice to demand justice for her people in Westminster or anywhere else. Frustrated on every level, the ordinary Irish man and woman feels the pressure mounting inexorably. Living”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“Going for a little journey around the inside of my head,”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“Like the river, we sparkle more in sunshine, but our strength comes from the rain’?”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“The Rising was funded largely by American sympathizers acting through the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“in 1800 Great Britain subsumed Ireland through the Act of Union, abolishing the Irish parliament, and the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland came into being.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“Dalton, James Emmet (1998–1978): Former major in the British Army; director of training for the IRA in 1921; aide and advisor to Michael Collins; in charge of the bombardment of the Four Courts; briefly clerk of Seanad Éireann; later, made a film career in Hollywood and London. Deasy,”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War

“Will so many uncushioned facts piled upon one another eventually erect an emotional wall between the event and the observer, so that people no longer feel an individual responsibility?”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1921: The Great Novel of the Irish Civil War