Barren Quote by Donal Logue

The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren.

— Donal Logue

If someone said, 'Think of a happy place for you,' I'd say a glacial plane near the South Pole, the wind howling, nobody in…

— Donal Logue

Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?

— Elizabeth Bowen

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

— Fiona Shaw

I grew up in the west of Ireland, and Galway was our local seaside resort. We'd go for one day of the year during…

— Philip Treacy

“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark…

— Eilis Flynn

Ireland was an idyllic place for us as children. We had all these cousins and all this green countryside. Given what I've written about…

— Martin McDonagh

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring…

— Michael D. Higgins

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this…

— Lydia M. Child

“There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.”

— Rhian J. Martin

The landscape in Ireland is just - I've never been in such a beautiful place with the lakes and ocean and everything.

— Travis Fimmel

I've made 'The Pilgrimage' - where I actually had to speak Gaelic - and I was shooting in Belfast as well.

— Tom Holland