Ireland Quotes - Page 15

• These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would prefer, I believe, to accept the government of a foreign country rather than submit to be governed by hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway.

  Bonar Law

  Country, Party, Believe

  Bonar Law's speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. January 1, 1913.

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• In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Europe, Sea, America

  Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon (1817). “A Natural History, General and Particular: Containing the History and Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, the Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, Etc. Etc”, p.128

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• I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland for about four years playing in indie rock bands. I love and miss being in a band, I still am in a band but pursuing that as a career I definitely missed it but I felt like that ship had sailed.

  Bill Watterson

  College, Rocks, Years

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• The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

  Katharine Tynan

  Trouble, Has Beens

  Katharine Tynan (1922). “The Wandering Years”

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• The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

  Hillary Clinton

  Europe, Political, Needs

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

  Seamus Heaney

  Imagine

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• 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

  Scotland, Speech, Speak

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• 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, Party, Agreement

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• Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

  James Joyce

  Sober

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.1099, e-artnow

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• Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

  James Joyce

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)

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

  James Joyce

  Europe, Firsts, Ifs

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.1910, Delphi Classics

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• My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.

  Denis Leary

  Horse, New York, Father

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• Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.

  Denis Leary

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• Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Law, England, Crime

  Thomas Francis Meagher (1885). “Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland”

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• I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Argentina, Chile

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• I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

  Robert Redford

  Dad, Scotland, Poverty

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• I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Taken, Leave Me Alone, Want

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• I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.

  Richard Russo

  Thinking, America, Dublin

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• There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

  Fiona Shaw

  Happiness, Done, Demographics

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Seamus Heaney

  Attitude, Home, Figure Skating

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• What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'

  Lady Gregory

  Country, Morning, People

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.500, eBookIt.com

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

  Caroline Corr

  Tv Shows, Firsts, Tvs

  "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May 2005.

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• When my family moved from Ireland in the 70s, Britain was such a difficult place to be Irish. It was a decade of real social and economic upheaval in Britain. There were strikes, the three-day week, the oil crises, huge inflation, the winter of discontent and, what was it, four Prime Ministers? And relations between Britain and Ireland at that time were at an all-time low. I was born in the year of Bloody Sunday and of course the pub bombings happened in the mid-1970s.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Real, Sunday, Winter

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg and others, exactly. We have to take a close look at their tax regimes, particularly if we want to move forward with European integration. We can't have a situation in which some EU member states enrich themselves at the expense of their partners.

  Wolfgang Kubicki

  Moving, Taxes, Situation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay. But when I found the right story, I saw it as an opportunity to write about being a teenager and being gay. Most people, whether you're gay or straight or whatever, have experienced that relationship where one person is much more interested than the other.

  John Boyne

  Teenager, Writing, Gay

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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