Quotes about Ireland

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I make my way back whistling. Gerry nods towards Mrs Brady who is standing beside the trolleys.Morning, Mrs Brady, I say — Dermot Healy, Sudden Times
I heard you went to Ireland...I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?Wet as a bath spong — Diana Gabaldon, The Scottish Prisoner
I wanted to make at least an effort to impress, so I found my best suit, a Primark special that looked like it had been — Jay Stringer, Ways to Die in Glasgow
What can I say? I'm Irish, I love a good potato. — Sophia Tallon
I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the — Iris Murdoch
The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination — George Bernard Shaw
Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shif — Richard Killeen, A Brief History of Ireland
Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful one — Peter Hitchens
...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetu — David Willis McCullough, Wars of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge i — Emily Hahn, Fractured Emerald: Ireland
There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the — Rhian J. Martin
Old, is it?" the man asks."Yes, very.""Pre-war, is it?""Yes," I say. "If by war you mean the Norman invasion. — Garrett Carr, The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border
And if I was bewildered through those decades, totally bewildered, so was the country I came from. The majority, what wa — Josephine Hart, The truth about love
When boys called Bob and Bono would bring their own wild-rhythm celebration and the world would fall down in worshipful — Josephine Hart, The truth about love
Any good history begins in strangeness. The past should not be comfortable. The past should not a familar echo of the pr — Richard White, Remembering Ahanagran: A History of Stories
History is the enemy of memory. — Richard White
THAT crazed girl improvising her music.Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,Her soul in division from itselfClimbing, fall — W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die. — Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races
My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I — Nora Roberts
Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there. — Bernie Mcgill, The Butterfly Cabinet