Irish nationalism (Irish: Náisiúnachas Éireannach) is the nationalism of the Irish people and Irish culture. Since the partition of Ireland, the term generally refers to support for a united Ireland.
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Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or nationalism:
“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)
“The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)