Quotes About Ireland

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

Justice and revenge had been only part of my motivation for leaving Ashford. I'd run from my grief, from their pain, from being a shadow of another person, better loved for bitterly lost, and Ireland hadn't been nearly far enough.

I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living* them! How was I to know I'd have to capture everything I ever wanted to remember of Eire for the rest of my life?

For the great Gaels of IrelandAre the men that God made mad,For all their wars are merry,And all their songs are sad.

published in 2001, concentrates on tracing our ancestry using the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA, which also features heavily in The Nature of the Beast. Other books focus on the paternally inherited Y-chromosome and the evolution of sex (Adam's Curse, 2003), on genealogy and the genetic history of Britain and Ireland (Blood of the Isles, 2006) and America (DNA USA, 2012).

Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.

For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.

We dont vote in Northern Ireland for what we want, we vote against what we dont want.

My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.

Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

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.

Just when we need a strong government, what do we see? Division. Chaos. And failure. No credible plan for Brexit, no solution to prevent a hard border in Ireland and no majority in Parliament for the Chequers proposals.

We would only need a bespoke solution for Northern Ireland if Britain leaves the Single Market.

Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday I'll end up living there. When I've established myself in America and I don't need to live near the action, so to speak, and if you're good, the work will come to you. I feel very Irish; maybe that's why I've been so lucky with my career.

Elizabeth now calls herself the Supreme Governor of the Church of Ireland - can you believe such a joke? As if God reached down and put his hand on her head, anointing her? A woman? He added this last with special emphasis, as if it were the worst crime charged to Elizabeth Tudor's name.

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland.

I would rather go back to when I started doing music in Ireland and it was all live. I mean you just don't mime.

And yet … Ireland, a little island at the edge of Europe that has known neither Renaissance nor Enlightenment—in some ways, a Third World country with, as John Betjeman claimed, a Stone Age culture—had one moment of unblemished glory.

For the great Gaels of Ireland," wrote G. K. Chesterton, Are the men that God made mad. For all their wars are merry, And all their songs are sad.

The most spectacular-and embittering-of the British suppressions of the Irish was Oliver Cromwell's punitive expedition of 1649

by 1891, nearly two-fifths of all living people born in Ireland were living outside Ireland.

O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.