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Ireland Quotes by Seamus Heaney
- 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,…
- At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
- The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
- My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland,…
- In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
- My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the…
- A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
- I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
- Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a…
- I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won…
More Ireland Quotes
- It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy. — Amy Adams
- For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. — Gerry Adams
- Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. — Dave Barry
- Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick. — Samuel Beckett
- On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we… — Kate Adie
- Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that… — Theodore Bikel
- 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… — Bono
- Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me… — Bono
- Ireland is a great country to die or be married in. — Elizabeth Bowen
- I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water… — Bill Bryson
- The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability. — Hillary Clinton