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Quotes About Dublin

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
~ Roddy Doyle
The introduction of the Protestant religion into Ireland may be principally attributed to George Browne, an Englishman, who was consecrated archbishop of Dublin on the nineteenth of March, 1535.
~ John Foxe
I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk...
~ John Geddes
My average day is with my wife and kids in Dublin, doing school runs, grocery store, feeding and walking the dogs.
~ Ronan Keating
The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.
~ George A. Moore
Broadchurch' was very naturalistically shot, in many respects, whereas 'Dublin Murders' has a slightly heightened element cinematically, because there is a supernatural, ominous quality - particularly in the woods.
~ Killian Scott
I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.
~ Jodie Foster
I am more of an ambler. I once overheard my old boss in Dublin describe me as very hello trees, hello flowers. It was intended as an insult and it fulfilled its brief; I was insulted. I had little interest in greeting trees and flowers but nor did I treat life as a treadmill, on which it was vital to keep fleeing forward in order to avoid being sucked off the back and out of the game.
~ Marian Keyes
Dublin's a great place. It really is. It's a great place. And Ireland, especially, is a great place. I've realized that growing up more. I'm loving my country more as I'm getting older.
~ Barry Keoghan
Did you ever hear tell,' said Jimmy Farrell, 'of the skulls they have in the city of Dublin? White skulls and black skulls and yellow skulls, and some with full teeth, and some haven't only but one,' and compounded history in the pan of 'an old Dane, maybe, was drowned in the Flood.' My words lick around cobbled quays, go hunting lightly as pampooties over the skull-capped ground. -Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces
~ Seamus Heaney
RyanAir have been getting a hard time because they've launched a £7 flight to New York. Although as always with RyanAir it does land slightly outside of New York. In Dublin.
~ Frankie Boyle
Brenda Ruttledge —dijo Quirke—. Una de las enfermeras.
~ Benjamin Black
It is important that we return to the principles of the Dublin agreement and help Greece with European funds to accommodate refugees.
~ Sebastian Kurz
All I do in Dublin is relax and live away from the cameras. There are a few coffee shops I love and I spend my days in there drinking cappuccinos.
~ Louis Walsh
The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.
~ Frank McCourt
I was raised in New York, so that's the greatest city in the world to me, but if you take that out of the equation, then London is my favourite city, and I'm a huge fan of Dublin as well.
~ Michelle Visage
Dublin was hardly worried by the war; her old preoccupations were still preoccupations. The intelligentsia continued their parties; their mutual malice was as effervescent as ever.
~ Louis MacNeice
Welcome to the O2. A unique building in Dublin, in that it is actually finished.
~ Bill Bailey
Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't very difficult for me. There was very little acting going on.
~ Glen Hansard
Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.
~ Bonnie Tyler
I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.
~ Rick Allen
In Dublin, we open The Dock, our new multidisciplinary innovation R&D and incubation hub where all elements of our innovation architecture come to life. The Dock is a launch pad for our more than 200 researchers to innovate with clients and acquisition partners with a particular focus on artificial intelligence.
~ Pierre Nanterme
I grew up in Summerhill in Dublin's inner city, and I came across an open audition, and they were looking for inner city kids who had not acted. I signed up.
~ Barry Keoghan
Bono was short for Bono Vox of O'Connell Street, but the boy Guggi was no Latin scholar. "Strong Voice" was an accidental translation. Bonavox was a hearing aid shop in Dublin.
~ Bono