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I've said it before and I'll say it again, England get out of Ireland.

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Source: Speech in an Irish public house in New York for the launch of an Irish television show (February 11, 1982), quoted in Michael Hamlyn, "Koch war of words upsets UN", The Times (February 12, 1982), p. 6
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