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 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

Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.
Hugh Dancy

It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.
Thomas F. Meagher

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.
Roma Downey

It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.
Anjelica Huston

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.
Enya

It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.
Dick Spring