Ireland Quotes · Page 41

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his…

— Lady Gregory

Despite being from Ireland, I've always avoided writing about it, for two reasons. For a very small country, Ireland has produced an…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I spend most of my time in London but I come back to Ireland whenever I can.

— Rory Gallagher

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

— Anne Enright

I'm coming to a sense of a women's movement which was extraordinarily important in the struggle for freedom in Ireland and immediately…

— Mary Robinson

The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

— Bernadette Devlin

I think everyone acknowledges Teddy is the person in the Senate who speaks for Ireland.

— Jean Kennedy Smith

The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll…

— Bobby Sands

Sometimes you wonder, do referees understand the game of football?

— Roy Keane

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said,…

— Quentin Crisp

My family are very happy that I'm playing with Ireland. It's my dad's side, and he's really, really proud. He wants me…

— Declan Rice

“She took the sea with her Not beaches but the grey relentless Irish sea, its rhythm and the crying gulls.”

— Caroline Davies

No, I just thought of a story and wrote down what I saw. It was about two kids in Ireland who went…

— Neil Jordan

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it…

— John McGahern

Ireland's always been good to us. We always get nostalgic when we play there because it was the very first proper show…

— Tom Fletcher

I was living in Britain and then America, but it wasn't until I returned to live in Ireland in the late '70s…

— Ian McElhinney

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate,…

— Lady Gregory

If Northern Ireland is in one customs regime and the Republic of Ireland is in another, why won't a customs border be…

— David Gauke

I remember being very free in Ireland.

— Charley Boorman

We would only need a bespoke solution for Northern Ireland if Britain leaves the Single Market.

— Leo Varadkar

At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time…

— Stephen Rea

My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do,…

— Peter Hain

For too long, Ireland has neglected its children.

— Enda Kenny

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…

— Mike Pence

I say "on principle" [regarding 'lesbian writer'] because whenever you get one of your minority labels applied, like "Irish Writer," "Canadian Writer,"…

— Emma Donoghue