People
See also category: People from County Leitrim- John McGahern - author.
- John Willoughby Crawford - third Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada.
- Katherine Lynch - comedienne.
- Pat Quinn - founder of Quinnsworth.
- Patrick McGoohan - actor.
- Paul Williams - journalist.
- Seán Mac Diarmada - Irish republican.
- Thomas Heazle Parke -explorer, naturalist.
- Patrick Rogan - US Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
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“I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.”
—Victoria (1819–1901)
“Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)
“Mighty few young black women are doin’ domestic work. And I’m glad. That’s why I want my kids to go to school. This one lady told me, “All you people are gettin’ like that.” I said, “I’m glad.” There’s no more gettin’ on their knees.”
—Maggie Holmes, African American domestic worker. As quoted in Working, book 3, by Studs Terkel (1973)