Ireland Quotes

Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.
Andrea Corr

Hurt, Bad, Drunk

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.
Caroline Corr

Live, Remember, Show

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

Rock, Irish, U2

I hope that at the end of the seven years, people will say that I have been of some inspirational value to them at home in terms of inclusiveness and abroad, I look forward to representing Ireland.
Michael D. Higgins

Hope, Home, Forward

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
John Hume

Worst, Example, Northern

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.
John Hume

Days, Quite, General

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.
John Hume

Government, Happen, Else

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.
John Hume

Thinking, Put, Violence

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

Philosophy, Victory, Either

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
Seamus Heaney

Irish, Imagine, Helped

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
Seamus Heaney

Point, Anyone, Speech

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
Seamus Heaney

Home, Attitude, Authority

I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.
Michael W. Smith

Love, Made, Last

After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.
George William Russell

Spiritual, After, Spirit

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.
Michael Fassbender

Alive, Influence, Consider

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.
Mark Burnett

War, Government, Two

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.
Martin McGuinness

Peace, Process, Mistake

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.
Terri Windling

Love, Music, Girl

I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages.
Brian Cox

Fact, High, Kings

I love to go to Ireland just to relax.
Ron Wood

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 Francis Meagher

Hope, America, Moral

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

Heart, Book, Hard

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

Working, Film, Three

No, I just thought of a story and wrote down what I saw. It was about two kids in Ireland who went around killing people. It was called Travelers, and it was made as an independent film.
Neil Jordan

Down, Thought, Made

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.
Neil Jordan

Political, Mean, Old

While I was in London it was completely upside-down. I got a whole new life and it was a challenge to keep in touch with my life in Ireland, but it was great fun. Now though, I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading.
Evanna Lynch

Life, Great, Home

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

Good, Stuff, Pension

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
Anne McCaffrey

Love, Words, Living

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.
Harri Holkeri

Problems, Question, Started

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
Harri Holkeri

Time, History, War

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