Ireland Quotes
When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.
The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.
My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland
In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.
They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.
Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.
We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.
Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.
My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland.
I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.
The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.
I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.
One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.
The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.
I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of sitting there for an hour and a half watching a game like we saw between Ireland and England last Sunday.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.
The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.
In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.
The French selectors never do anything by halves; for the first international of the season against Ireland they dropped half the three-quarter line.
My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European.
As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.
The legend goes that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. I was thinking... that must be hard to put all the tiny seatbelts on all the snakes.
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.
