Republic of Ireland

The Republic of Ireland (Irish: Éire) is a country in Europe. The Republic covers five-sixths of the island of Ireland. Its capital and largest city is Dublin. The population of the Republic is just under 4.6 million.

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Ireland would not turn into a Marxist country, for all their wishes. The list of such nations was very thin now, though across the world academics still clung to the words and ideas of Marx and Engles and even Lenin. Fools.
- Tom Clancy, Rainbow Six (1998), p. 515

It is a nation of contradictions, sir. Consider this: Ireland is an island nation that has never developed a navy; a music-loving people who have produced only those harmless lilting ditties as their musical legacy; a bellicose people who have never known the sweet savor of victory in a single war; a Catholic country that has never produced a single doctor of the Church; a magnificently beautiful country, a country to inspire artists, but a country not yet immortalized in art; a philosophic people yet to produce a single philosopher of note; a sensual people who have never mastered the art of preparing food.
- Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline (1980), p. 274. Said by the character Colonel Edward T. Reynolds.

We are a small nation. Our military strength in proportion to the mighty armaments of modern nations can never be considerable. Our strength as a nation will depend upon our economic freedom, and upon our moral and intellectual force. In these we can become a shining light in the world.
- Michael Collins, A Path to Freedom (2010), p. 64

Our army, if it exists for honorable purposes only, will draw to it honorable men. It will call to it the best men of our race- men of skill and culture. It will not be recruited as so many modern nations are, from those who are industrially useless.
- Michael Collins, A Path to Freedom (2010), p. 64

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