Bud Quote by Louis MacNeice

“A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want…

— Louis MacNeice

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

— William Allingham

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them…

— Bernadette Devlin

The smell of rotted corpses walkng down our main streets proves that Ireland is not yet free but a victim of greed. British Retail…

— Robert Emmet

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I…

— Van Morrison

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

— Crispin Glover

Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures…

— Sean Brady

This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, 'I know you.…

— Rory McIlroy

“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

I like the culture in England. Why would I want to leave?

— Paolo di Canio

“If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion…

— Pádraig Pearse

“He said you have to be on the side of the losers, the people with bad lungs. You have to be with those who…

— Hugo Hamilton