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Irish Quotes by Lady Gregory
- I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and…
- In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted…
- Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was…
- Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent…
- The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish…
- The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died…
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- Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. — Brendan Behan
- If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. — Brendan Behan
- On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we… — Kate Adie
- At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very… — Bono
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- My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort… — Geraldine Brooks
- I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know. — Sandra Bullock
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