Consumed Quote by Dave Barry

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.

— Tom Kettle

Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.

— Crispin Glover

Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions.

— Gustave de Beaumont

Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone.…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors,…

— David Willis McCullough

Irish as a Paddy's pig.

— Eugene O'Neill

Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful…

— Friedrich Engels

The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round. Sport and…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I grew up in the countryside, in literally the middle of nowhere. We had one neighbor and a lot of sheep.

— Georgia King

If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems…

— Denis Donoghue

All I knew about Ireland before I went there was what I learned from watching soap commercials all my life. I was totally misinformed.…

— Arj Barker

Geographically, we are at the periphery of Europe, but I don't see Ireland in that way. The way I see us is as an…

— Leo Varadkar