Death Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

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

What I love about Irish people is the way we get behind our sportspeople.

— Shane Lowry

“The national sport in Ireland, apart from talking, is hurling.”

— Ken Bruen

Different parts of Ireland have different alliances, because you have little pockets where counties are good at hurling, and different counties are good at…

— Eoin Morgan

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled…

— Lewis Mumford

Irish national teams are usually very physical.

— Timothy Weah

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I'm sure there's some sort of cynicism or fatalism in Ireland and England. We are fatalistic here, and sometimes we need to be shaken…

— Brian Gleeson

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

— Jack Nicholson

“Gaelic football...may seem like a primitive, violent, mindless exercise in unspeakable brutality. However, to the initiated enthusiast, it is all this and more.”

— Arthur Mathews

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad…

— Theodore Dreiser

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

— Dervla Murphy