Famous Ireland Thoughts
400 Ireland quotes by 237 unique authors
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I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home…
— Michael D. Higgins
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You are not speaking for yourself, but for Ireland.
— Michael D. Higgins
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Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
— Barry McGuigan
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My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when…
— Ciaran Hinds
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Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country where the domestic market counts much more than the external market.
— Peter Bofinger
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One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear.
— Peter Bofinger
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In 2009 we increased the cash in Quinn Direct as we had in 2008. We increased the cash in it in 2010. The outstanding claims…
— Sean Quinn
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In 1975, no State or Church guidelines existed in the Republic of Ireland to assist those responding to an allegation of abuse against a minor.…
— Sean Brady
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Today, Church policy in Ireland is to report allegations of abuse to the civil authorities. It recognises the Gardai and H.S.E. as those with responsibility…
— Sean Brady
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Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures of…
— Sean Brady
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The basis on which the Good Friday agreement was constructed was in addressing those problems in the history of Northern Ireland, the social and constitutional…
— John Reid
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My grandparents on my fathers side come to America from Germany, so that made them, German-American. My grandparents on my mothers side came to America…
— David Kreger
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I like Ireland because it means I'm near France.
— Harry Harrison
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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…
— John Hawkes
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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…
— Enya
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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…
— Roma Downey
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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…
— Dick Spring
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Hopefully, this statement means we're finally nearing the end of this very long process to take guns and criminality out of politics in Northern Ireland…
— Edward Kennedy
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This may be the day when finally after all the false dawns and dashed hope, peace replaced war, politics replaces terror on the island of…
— Tony Blair
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The smell of rotted corpses walkng down our main streets proves that Ireland is not yet free but a victim of greed. British Retail Imperialism…
— Robert Emmet
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I think I realised there were two communities in Northern Ireland when I was about nine or 10, not because there was any trouble but…
— Liam Neeson
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I feel and know that the Repeal must lead to the dismemberment of this great empire; must make Great Britain a fourth-rate power in Europe,…
— Robert Peel
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Brandon McCaw did 500 million Questions on perhaps there was a central organization that produced a quantity of extraordinarily precise measuring sticks and distributed them…
— Brandon McCaw
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..though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason can never reconcile…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Ancient Ireland sweeping In again with all its unbaptized beauty: The calm evening, The whitethorn blossoms, The smell from ditches that were not Christian.
— Patrick Kavanagh
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