Quotes on Ireland

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

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

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

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.

Author: Diane Furstenberg

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

Author: Charles Haughey

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

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

Author: Seamus Heaney

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

Author: Anjelica Huston

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

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

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

Author: James Joyce

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

Author: James Joyce

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.

Author: Mary Little

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

Author: Anne McCaffrey

Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.

Author: Martin McGuinness

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

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

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

Author: Boyle Roche

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

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

Author: Greta Scacchi

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

Quotes on Ireland

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.

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.

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

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.

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

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.

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

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.

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.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.

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

Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.

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.

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.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

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.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

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.