Great Irish Speeches - Hardcover

The Great Irish Speeches audio pack offers genuine historical recordings from the last 70 years of the most stirring and memorable speeches that have shaped Irish history. The CD is accompanied by an illustrated book, containing the transcripts of these and over 30 other momentous orations from throughout history. Each speech is preceded by an introduction, which places the address in context and underlines its historical significance, as well as an iconic photograph of the speaker. Presented chronologically, the book and CD together provide tremendous insight into Irish and world history. Includes the following speeches: · Éamon de Valera 'That Ireland which we dreamed of.' · Éamon de Valera 'The abuse of a people who have done him no wrong.' · John F. Kennedy 'Ireland's hour has come.' · Jack Lynch 'The Irish government can no longer stand by.' · Liam Cosgrave 'Mongrel foxes.' · Charles J. Haughey 'We are living away beyond our means.' · Joe Connolly 'People of Galway - we love you.' · John Hume 'Sit down and negotiate our future with us.' · Mary Robinson 'Come dance with me in Ireland.' · Máire Geoghegan-Quinn 'A necessary development of human rights.' · Séamus Heaney 'The achievement of Irish poets.' · David Trimble 'A cold house for Catholics.' · Joe Higgins 'Ansbacher Man.' · Gerry Adams 'Now there is an alternative.' · Ian Paisley 'A Northern Ireland in which all can live together in peace.' · Bertie Ahern 'This is what Ireland can give to the world.'

“I found Ireland on her knees, I watched over her with a paternal solicitude; I have traced her progress from injuries to arms, and from arms to liberty. Spirit of Swift! Spirit of Molyneux! Your genius has prevailed. Ireland is now a nation.” Henry Grattan. “The fools, the fools, the fools! They have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.” Patrick Pearse. “That Ireland which we dreamed of... a land whose countryside would be bright with cosy homesteads, whose fields and villages would be joyous with the sounds of industry, with the romping of sturdy children, the contests of athletic youths and the laughter of comely maidens, whose firesides would be forums for the wisdom of serene old age. It would be the home of a people living the life that God desires that man should live.” Eamon de Valera. “No man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation. No man has a right to say to his country: 'Thus far shalt thou go, and no further.'” Charles Stewart Parnell. “Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule. How good it will be to be part of a wonderful healing in our province. Today we have begun to plant and we await the harvest.” Ian Paisley.