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Ireland Quotes by John McGahern
- 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…
- Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people…
- Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead…
More Ireland Quotes
- Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick. — Samuel Beckett
- Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that… — Theodore Bikel
- The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability. — Hillary Clinton
- Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white.… — Cornel West
- I'm in my dressing room about to play to a sold-out crowd at the O2 arena in Ireland. Name a female rapper… — Nicki Minaj
- The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland;… — W. C. Sellar
- My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family… — Tony Blair
- I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a… — Unknown Author