Best Ireland Sayings
400 Ireland quotes by 237 unique authors
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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…
— Anne McCaffrey
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Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," and can…
— James Connolly
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Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in…
— Mahathir Mohamad
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Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward…
— William Butler Yeats
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It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the Church of Rome;…
— Unknown Author
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St. Patrick's Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants…
— Unknown Author
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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…
— Albert Reynolds
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The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human…
— Unknown Author
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Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm.
— William E. Gladstone
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The mission statement of my company, Kathy Ireland Worldwide, is to find solutions for families, especially busy moms. I'm reaching out to busy moms because…
— Kathy Ireland
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The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless,…
— Seamus Heaney
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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…
— Paul Muldoon
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I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987
— Paul Muldoon
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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…
— Paul Muldoon
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It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
— Kenneth Tynan
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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…
— John McGahern
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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.
— James Callaghan
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My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our…
— Danny Boyle
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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…
— Deval Patrick
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After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the…
— Robert Fisk
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Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.
— Unknown Author
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What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.
— Albert Reynolds
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Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.
— Unknown Author
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Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ...
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a…
— Daniel O'Connell
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