Quotes About Ireland

Politics could be cruel and heartless. And I was afraid, with the tensions in Ireland, that it could also be deadly.

I miss Irish milk. Probably not as much as Superquinn sausages.

There's a lot I've missed about living in Ireland. You miss family, particularly when you've got kids.

It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.

It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had come from the South, saw nothing but a mist, and it lying on the hills.

I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.

You have the most amazing Irish actors. Cillian on 'Peaky Blinders.' And the most amazing actress.

internal disunity made Ireland vulnerable to conquest by a united Britain.

By 1709, the Irish owned only 14 percent of the land in their own

not one private bank was opened in Dublin in the quarter century before 1793.

Pintman Paddy Losty. Some of Dublin's great pintmen have been known to put away thirty pints or more in a day

The 'Irish Question' has dogged English politics for four hundred years and will continue to measure out its irresolution in blood and human lives until there is peace in Ireland.

Ireland has the oldest literature in Europe in a native language.

Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.

Once this refreshing, aromatic, oriental beverage was successfully transformed into colourless and tasteless gargling-water, it suddenly became the national drink of Great Britain and Ireland — still retaining, indeed usurping, the high-sounding title of tea

When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good. The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone In the ring of this world, the most precious stone.

The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, As if that soul were fled.

My favourite example (of ex-patriotism) is James Joyce, who left Ireland at nineteen and never came back. But he spent the rest of his life writing about Ireland from the perspective of living in Paris.

In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist.

There was Ireland in his voice, dreamy wisps of it that could, unexpectedly, wind around her heart.

Sean is so funny. One time he went to Ireland for two weeks with his mother, and Ireland is so beautiful, and he got back; we were like, 'How was it?' and he was like, 'Ugh I was so bored.'

A Canada-style deal for the whole of the UK results in a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. For that reason, it has never been acceptable to the EU without a permanent hard border down the Irish Sea.

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

Any talk of no deal is completely unacceptable. No deal means we can't reach any agreement about the border in Ireland and that is not a place we want to be.