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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. -- Pope John Paul II
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift. -- Liam Neeson
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe? -- Quentin Crisp
Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. -- W. H. Auden
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick. -- Samuel Beckett
Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible. -- Charles Haughey
In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs. -- John Pentland Mahaffy
You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer. -- Hal Roach
In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty. -- Georgia Salpa
I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world. -- Colum McCann
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. -- Seamus Heaney
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. -- Dave Barry
The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full. -- Boyle Roche
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. -- Gerry Adams
Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation. -- Charles Stewart Parnell
We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm. -- Marianne Williamson
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart. -- William Butler Yeats
I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over! -- Elizabeth I
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either. -- James Callaghan
Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists. -- Alan Parker
No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove. -- James Joyce
Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse. -- George Bernard Shaw
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible -- Anne McCaffrey
My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking. -- James Cagney
I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland. -- Michael D. Higgins
You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems. -- Jack Kevorkian
I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to do it in an exciting way so that I could reach more readers. Zombies seemed like a good way to do that. -- Darren Shan
Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence. -- Bernadette Devlin
Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity. -- John McGahern
Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf holiday, and most people would dream of Scotland or Ireland. But Indonesia harbors one of the best-kept secrets in the world of travel: it is a golfer's paradise. -- Raymond Bonner
Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips. -- Art Donovan
I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots... I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be. -- Rory McIlroy
Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and make tea. It was the first thing I did when my father died in 1984. This ritual allowed me a moment to take in the enormity of what had happened. -- Roma Downey
Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey. -- Venerable Bede
Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one. -- George Bernard Shaw
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. -- William Butler Yeats
Ireland need fresh impotence. -- Phil Babb
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. -- James Joyce
Ireland unfree shall never be at peace -- Patrick Pearse
Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland. -- Denis Leary
I love to go to Ireland just to relax. -- Ronnie Wood
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. -- James Joyce
The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland -- James Larkin
I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland. -- Kenny Cunningham
There are kings on every other bush in Ireland. -- Charles Brady
What Ireland needs now above all else is peace. -- Albert Reynolds
Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time. -- Crispin Glover
Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland -- Phil Thompson
Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor? -- George Berkeley
Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. -- William E. Gladstone
There's never going to be a united Ireland, you know. -- Seamus Heaney
Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body. -- Hugh Dancy
Ireland is but an island off the coast of Cape Clear. -- Chuck Kruger
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. -- Seamus Heaney
Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ... -- Elizabeth Bowen
My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish. -- Dominic West
Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free. -- James Nesbitt
Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies. -- Ciaran Hinds
Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions. -- Gustave de Beaumont
We come bulletproof in Ireland. We're reared tough, and we fight. -- Conor McGregor
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic. -- Seamus Heaney
Ireland is a great country to die or be married in. -- Elizabeth Bowen
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I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there. -- Jeffrey Dean Morgan
I've never been to Ireland and I've always wanted to go. -- Ellen Page
Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy. -- Anjelica Huston
Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland. -- Martin McGuinness
I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff -- Anne McCaffrey
I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland. -- Fiona Shaw
The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control. -- Martin McGuinness
Romantic Ireland's dead and goneIt's with O' Leary in the grave(September 1913) -- W.B. Yeats
I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland. -- Philip Treacy
Your name is Sanchez, what are you doing playing for Northern Ireland? -- Lawrie Sanchez
Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond. -- Liam Neeson
It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion. -- Roma Downey
If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. -- James Joyce
Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land. -- James Larkin
To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland. -- Philip Sidney
I believe that those who die for Ireland have no need for prayer -- Liam Mellows
I speak many times about Stephen Ireland, that he is shy like a hedgehog. -- Giovanni Trapattoni
I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland. -- Eugene McCarthy
I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland. -- Lady Gregory
I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful. -- Eva Green
Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong. -- John Bruton
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...I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk... -- John Geddes
Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it. -- Loukas Tsoukalis
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. -- Will Rogers
Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away. -- Paul McCartney
Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way. -- Barry McGuigan
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation. -- Lady Gregory
Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother. -- Boyle Roche
I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland -- Gerry Adams
Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here. -- John Motson
Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove! -- James Joyce
I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country. -- Conor McGregor
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987 -- Paul Muldoon
Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. -- Seamus Heaney
Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye. -- Susan Mitchell
Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day. -- Anjelica Huston
Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. -- Tom Kettle
Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'. -- Jon Stewart
They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict. -- Peter Mandelson
It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland. -- James Nesbitt
There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station. -- Peter Hain
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America. -- Olivia Wilde
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely. -- Anne Enright
When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me. -- Eamon
Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs. -- Jeremy Hardy
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The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it. -- Howard Tomb
I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more. -- Dee Dee Myers
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets. -- St. Jerome
If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country. -- Ian Beattie
People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous. -- Frank Carson
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Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland. -- James Connolly

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