I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
Van Morrison

I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.
Anne McCaffrey

I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward.
Peter Hain

I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.
Neil Jordan

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.
Neil Jordan

Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.
Harry Johnston

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
James Joyce

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.
John Hume

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.
Caroline Corr

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.
Mary Wilson Little

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.
John Bruton

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.
Boyle Roche

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.
John Bruton

Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too.
Michael D. Higgins

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
Elizabeth Bowen

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
John McGahern

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.
Diane von Furstenberg

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
James Joyce

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.
Charles Haughey

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
James Joyce