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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
Author:
William Yeats
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Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
Author:
William Yeats
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I love to go to Ireland just to relax.
Author:
Ron Wood
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When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.
Author:
Terri Windling
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We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.
Author:
Marianne Williamson
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I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.
Author:
Julie Walters
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For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed.
Author:
James Walsh
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The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
Author:
Eamon Valera
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There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.
Author:
David Trimble
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I believe we've spent many years trying to bring about talks which have all the Parties in Northern Ireland involved so that there'd be inclusive talks.
Author:
Dick Spring
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It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.
Author:
Dick Spring
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I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.
Author:
Michael Smith
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That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.
Author:
Clare Short
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
Author:
Fiona Shaw
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I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.
Author:
Greta Scacchi
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They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
Author:
Bobby Sands
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After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.
Author:
George Russell
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Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.
Author:
Boyle Roche
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The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
Author:
Boyle Roche
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I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.
Author:
Albert Reynolds
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What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.
Author:
Albert Reynolds
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Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.
Author:
John Redmond
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I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.
Author:
Stephen Rea
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At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.
Author:
Stephen Rea
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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House.
Author:
Deval Patrick
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Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.
Author:
Charles Parnell
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.
Author:
Alan Parker
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There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.
Author:
Ed O'Brien
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Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
Author:
Liam Neeson
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The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
Author:
Eddie Murphy
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On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.
Author:
Paul Muldoon
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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.
Author:
Paul Muldoon
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
Author:
Van Morrison
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My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.
Author:
George Mitchell
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You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.
Author:
George Mitchell
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Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
Author:
Thomas Meagher
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It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.
Author:
Thomas Meagher
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Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.
Author:
Martin McGuinness
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Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.
Author:
Martin McGuinness
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Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
Author:
John McGahern
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Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.
Author:
John McGahern
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Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
Author:
John McGahern
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But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
Author:
Anne McCaffrey
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I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.
Author:
Anne McCaffrey
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They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.
Author:
Peter Mandelson
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I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
Author:
Loretta Lynn
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In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.
Author:
Mary Little
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The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
Author:
Hugh Leonard
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We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.
Author:
James Larkin
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The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland.
Author:
James Larkin
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The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.
Author:
James Larkin
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Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.
Author:
James Larkin
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Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.
Author:
Thomas Keneally
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At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.
Author:
Robbie Keane
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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
Author:
James Joyce
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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
Author:
James Joyce
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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
Author:
James Joyce
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I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.
Author:
Neil Jordan
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I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.
Author:
Neil Jordan
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I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.
Author:
Neil Jordan
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No, I just thought of a story and wrote down what I saw. It was about two kids in Ireland who went around killing people. It was called Travelers, and it was made as an independent film.
Author:
Neil Jordan
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Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.
Author:
Harry Johnston
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It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.
Author:
Anjelica Huston
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Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.
Author:
Anjelica Huston
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Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.
Author:
Anjelica Huston
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In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.
Author:
John Hume
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I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
Author:
John Hume
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People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.
Author:
John Hume
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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.
Author:
John Hume
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Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
Author:
Harri Holkeri
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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.
Author:
Harri Holkeri
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At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
Author:
Seamus Heaney
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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
Author:
Seamus Heaney
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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.
Author:
Seamus Heaney
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My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
Author:
John Hawkes
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Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.
Author:
Charles Haughey
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I like Ireland because it means I'm near France.
Author:
Harry Harrison
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I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward.
Author:
Peter Hain
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The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.
Author:
Peter Hain
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When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.
Author:
Peter Hain
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We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.
Author:
Peter Hain
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There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.
Author:
Peter Hain
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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.
Author:
William Gladstone
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Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.
Author:
Diane Furstenberg
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It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.
Author:
Enya
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I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
Author:
Brian Eno
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I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show.
Author:
Roma Downey
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It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.
Author:
Roma Downey
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My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.
Author:
Vincent D'Onofrio
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Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.
Author:
Hugh Dancy
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But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.
Author:
Hugh Dancy
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I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.
Author:
Kenny Cunningham
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Author:
Quentin Crisp
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I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.
Author:
Caroline Corr
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In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.
Author:
Caroline Corr
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Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.
Author:
Andrea Corr
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There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
Author:
James Callaghan
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My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.
Author:
James Cagney
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Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.
Author:
John Bruton
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Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.
Author:
John Bruton
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Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
Author:
Elizabeth Bowen
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Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
Author:
Bono
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
Author:
Theodore Bikel
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Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
Author:
Dave Barry
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
Author:
Kate Adie
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For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
Author:
Gerry Adams
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The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.
Author:
Gerry Adams
