George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Ireland

• Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Air, Becoming Better

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “John Bull's Other Island”, p.158, 1st World Publishing

• Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Ireland And The Irish, Spit, Turns

• The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

  George Bernard Shaw

  Heart, Imagination, Empathy

• Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Air, Years, Two

• The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hero, Europe, Heaven

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