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It takes you through the Viking and the Norman invasions, the British occupation, the great famine in 1840 and the rising (for independence) of 1916.


Michael Flatley

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RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT Rogues, would you live forever?
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FREDERICK THE GREAT In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.
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MAKARIOS THE GREAT An educated people can be easily governed.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I love opposition that has convictions.
FREDERICK THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
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FREDERICK THE GREAT Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I praise loudly, I blame softly
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT Talents go by nature not by birth.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT He who defends everything defends nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
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MICHAEL BURRY Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with ...
MICHAEL JOHNSON The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and...
MICHAEL LEUNIG I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's w...
MICHAEL LEARNED I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they marr...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF If you're going away, be sure to cancel the paper, the milk, and the laundry pickup. Remove the ...
MICHAEL FROME I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.
MICHAEL MINA I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and th...
MICHAEL PORTER The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
MICHAEL GERBER A lot of people have experimented with hidden cameras and magic before. What I do, which I think is ...
MICHAEL CARBONARO I've been on so many primetime shows that were cancelled - after one episode, after 10 episodes,...
MICHAEL EASTON The lifespan of any show is to end in cancellation.
MICHAEL CUDLITZ We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass throug...
MICHAEL SPECTER I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE A small minority of strokes are hemorrhagic strokes, which are caused by bleeding into the brain whe...
MICHAEL GREGER 'Into the Blizzard' follows the author as he traces the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regime...
MICHAEL WINTER Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture...
MICHAEL DIRDA The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn't...
MICHAEL CARBONARO Roja Dove - who, at 58, is a stock-straight six feet and handsome with lantern jaw, blue eyes, and i...
MICHAEL PATERNITI There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the labora...
MICHAEL BURGESS And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from...
MICHAEL SCHIAVO From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing fr...
MICHAEL FOREMAN You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.
MICHAEL LEVY