Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to… — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is,… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
On the business side, innovative leaders are beginning to wake up to the fact that this non-stop work trend is bad for… — Katrina Onstad Copy Share Image
It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship.… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Love is patient. Love is kind. It bears all things. Love never fails. Love is as strong as death. — O.R. Melling Copy Share Image
Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It… — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
We have to face up to the fact that without the armed uprising in 1916 Britain would not have withdrawn from southern Ireland. — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues. — Fionnula Flanagan Copy Share Image
The fierce pulsation of resurgent pride that disclaims servitude may one day cease to throb in the heart of Ireland - but… — Thomas MacDonagh Copy Share Image
It's Northern Ireland, it's Ireland, it's Scotland, it's Wales, there's Scousers, Londoners, all behind me. — Carl Frampton Copy Share Image
I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
Most actors here go to the West Coast; I ended up going to Ireland. My buddies who left drama school, they had… — Brian F. O'Byrne Copy Share Image
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Bí ann nó as táimse ag triall Ort agus má tá cuirim geasa Ort mé a shábháil ón dream a deir gur… — Caitlín Maude Copy Share Image
I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
I love the traditional music of all our islands - Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales , but I suppose I'm viewed pretty… — Ralph McTell Copy Share Image
Roy Keane is an iconic figure in world football, never mind the Republic of Ireland, so if you're talking about egos, it… — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
