Ireland Quotes - Page 10

• According to a brand new report, alcohol abuse in Ireland is on the rise. Mainly because the guy who didn't drink now does.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Humor, Guy

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• I think New York is working its way into my poems. It takes a while for a place to filter its way onto the page, but I've been reading more and more American poetry and I certainly feel it as quite a freeing force. Coming from the formally ordered tradition of poetry in Ireland, I find the expansiveness of American literature freeing in some sense.

  Nick Laird

  Reading, Thinking, Literature

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew up feeling very comfortable around books. Also, Ireland is a country which has honoured its writers and poets, so when someone says they wanted to be a writer, its not mocked or looked down upon.

  Michael Scott

  Country, Book, Taken

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• The one thing that has changed dramatically when you talk to the people of New Zealand and people from Ireland? They feel a darned-sight better about themselves because they made the decision to do what they've done, and I can say to you, we would feel a bloody darned sight better about ourselves once we get an opportunity to put this [vote on same-sex marriage] out there.

  Tony Abbott

  Sex, Opportunity, Sight

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Weddings and funerals have so much in common (except that in Ireland funerals are more fun - better food, better drink): at both, our senses are sharpened and we register much more than usual - a striking face or hair-do, the wind's behaviour, a bird singing.

  Michael Longley

  Fun, Hair, Wind

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

  Seamus Heaney

  Class System, Caste System, Want

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• The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.

  Colm Toibin

  Book, Gay, Men

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• Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.

  John Edward

  Records, Unions, Historic

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• That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

  Iris Murdoch

  Wish, Awful, Breathe

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Sea, The Sea”, p.151, Penguin

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• From my earliest youth I have regarded the connection between Ireland and Great Britain as the curse of the Irish nation, and felt convinced, that while it lasted, this country would never be free or happy. In consequence, I determined to apply all the powers which my individual efforts could move, in order to separate the two countries.

  Theobald of Bec

  Country, Moving, Individual Effort

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• Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Father, Office, Ends

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• I have seen the Indian in his forests, and the Negro in his chains, and thought, as I contemplated their pitiable condition, that I saw the very extreme of human wretchedness; but I did not then know the condition of unfortunate Ireland...In all countries, more or less, paupers may be discovered; but an entire nation of paupers is what was never seen until it was shown in Ireland.

  Gustave de Beaumont

  Country, May, Saws

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• Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions.

  Gustave de Beaumont

  Country, Littles, Raises

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• The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

  Dervla Murphy

  Lasts, Emotion, Flair

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• Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe's oddest countries. Here, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody's lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Country, Technology, Europe

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• England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

  Kevin Kilbane

  Home, Leaving, England

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I really want to go to Ireland. It's really green I hear and very pretty. So I'd really like to go there and spend a nice amount of time because I always travel but for like a second. I never get to enjoy the places.

  Selena Gomez

  Nice, Green, Want

  Interview with Miranda Clarke, cinemanerdz.com. July 4, 2011.

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• The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

  Jonathan Swift

  Running, Style, Term

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• Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

  Marianne Moore

  Mother, Character, Stories

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.112, Penguin

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• The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round. Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland, but these cannot operate the whole time: on the whole, the landowner leaves his tenants and work-people to make their own mistakes, while he makes his.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Sports, Mistake, Two

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• My mother was one of the most beautiful women, I have to say, of her generation. She was absolutely lovely. She was a very, extremely sensitive, Irish actress. She came from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and she came to London, and she was sort of discovered by several people.

  Angela Lansbury

  Beautiful, Mother, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In Celtic Ireland the name Leo was Lugh, another solar hero and mystic. In Wales he was Llew, to the Romans Lugus, to the Sumerians Lughal. Its not the same dude on walkabout, it's the Astrological sign of Leo. In the Christian iconography we have one of the Evangelists represented by a Lion. In the Nativity scenes we see 4 animals around the cradle of the Son/Sun king. One of these is also a Lion. Christians probably believe that there was one in the area and just happened to wander into the inn to take a peek at sleeping Jesus. Good thing it wasn't very hungry.

  Michael Tsarion

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

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• History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

  William Allingham

  Revenge, Hatred, Selfishness

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• There are too many coming from different countries. When we started, foreign players were in the minority. All the best players from Spain, France, Brazil, Argentina are going to England. And Ireland is bound to suffer.

  Kevin Kilbane

  Country, Player, Suffering

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• It sounds blase but there is a certain amount of luck. We'd all like to take a certain amount of credit for Kevin Doyle... I can't really remember what it was I particularly liked about Kevin when I watched him in Ireland. I had five pints of Guinness in the afternoon and it was all a bit blurred.

  Steve Coppell

  Soccer, Football, Luck

  "The quiet man". Interview with Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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