There Will Be Fire Quotes

“ignoramuses”—”
― Rory Carroll, Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

“Queen Victoria’s government limited food aid, lest charity foster idleness and other vices in what was deemed an inferior race, as if evolution had taken a wrong turn with these backward Celts in contrast to the eminently superior Anglo-Saxons. English publications caricatured the Irish as apelike brawlers, drinkers, and layabouts, a race predisposed to superstition, savagery, and indolence.”
― Rory Carroll, There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

“He sketched portraits of dead comrades on handkerchiefs as decorative gifts for relatives and supporters outside. Such artwork was so popular that Long Kesh was nicknamed “the hankie factory.”
― Rory Carroll, There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History