Ireland Quotes

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.

Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.

When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step.

Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.

We dont vote in Northern Ireland for what we want, we vote against what we dont want.

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.

Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.

People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.

Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.

There is more talent per square metre in Ireland than there is anywhere else. We just don't harness or help them ... the radio stations prefer to support the likes of Rihanna and Beyonce.

I always tell people, you know, [J.F.Kennedy's] grandfather was born in Ireland and he was Irish-Catholic, and I thought, so maybe I could someday try do what he did.

I'm in my dressing room about to play to a sold-out crowd at the O2 arena in Ireland. Name a female rapper who's ever done that and I will give you $100,000.

Ireland need fresh impotence.

I grew up my whole life in Ireland and obviously sound very, very Irish. I feel like it's just one of those things that just charms the socks off of people.

I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home.

When the Internet arrived in Ireland... it was like having Amsterdam's Red Light District in your own living room.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

It was amazing that I was ever elected.

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987

What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.

I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.

I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff

When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.

My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.

For the young Gaels of Ireland Are the lads that drive me mad, For half their words need footnotes And half their rhymes are bad.

I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

I've always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I'm where I belong.

Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it's possible to bring work into the country, that's no harm.

When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.

I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.

The prime minister of Ireland will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day at the White House. So finally the Secret Service agents will have a drinking buddy.

According to a brand new report, alcohol abuse in Ireland is on the rise. Mainly because the guy who didn't drink now does.

I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.

I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didnt know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that beyond became internalized in our psyche.

When we stage the Olympics it will inspire kids all over the country. A kid in Scotland or Ireland will be encouraged to take up sport.

I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.