1916 Quotes

“Questions stripped away the platitudes and undermined the verities that provided a sheltered, nursery existence for people who did not want to think. Questions were the obligation of the intellect.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion

“At one time the Irish had been forbidden by English law to educate their children, to own a horse worth more than five pounds, to play the Irish pipes, to wear the color green… the list went on and on. Most of the oppressive statutes were no longer enforced, but the shamed submission they had engendered remained.”
― Morgan Llywelyn, 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion