Between Two Hells Quotes

“Batt O’Connor, who was close to Collins, referred to the women ‘mudslinging and name calling and spitting and frothing to the mouth like angry cats … I think the Irish people will not be in a hurry again to elect women to represent them.’19”
― Diarmaid Ferriter, Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War

“Reason rather than faith has been my master … I have felt for some time that this doctrine of mine ill fitted me to be leader of the republican party … nature never fashioned me to be a partisan leader … For the sake of the cause I allowed myself to be put into a position which it is impossible for one of my outlook and personal bias to fill with effect for the party … every instinct of mine would indicate that I was meant to be a dyed-in-the-wool Tory, or even a Bishop, rather than the leader of a revolution.”
― Diarmaid Ferriter, Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War