Quote by Diarmaid Ferriter

By 2007, an uncompetitive, bloated, over-borrowed and distorted Irish economy had been left at the mercy of subsequent international events without the safeguards, institutions,…

— Enda Kenny

“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.”

— Matthew Quick

The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get…

— Eddie Murphy

“Irish heroes, for one reason or another, have come off, it must be owned, but poorly before the bar of history.”

— Emily Lawless

“We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“a new wave of immigrants would replace the Irish, fleeing a different but no less abject country, the process starting anew. The engine huffed…

— Colson Whitehead

“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people”

— Jan Morris

One of the biggest problems I found with Irish politics and the economic thing was after the war, after World War II, most of…

— Gavin Friday

The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

— Jack Charlton

For years, Ireland used to have a philosophy of 'Get them in here to invest and develop in Ireland, and this will sort out…

— Enda Kenny

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland.

— James Larkin