Ireland Quotes - Page 16

• One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!

  Bernadette Devlin

  Jesus, Hate, Names

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• What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Friday, Agreement, Years

  Queen Elizabeth II's Dublin Castle Speech, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2011.

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• Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Nice, Amsterdam

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• You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Couple, Guitar

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

  Lady Gregory

  Country, Giving Up, World

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Celtic Folklore Collection”, p.143, eBookIt.com

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• As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

  Lady Gregory

  Men, Firsts, Greyhounds

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.495, eBookIt.com

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• From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

  Lady Gregory

  Son, Bird, Rising

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.87, eBookIt.com

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• It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.

  Lady Gregory

  Fighting, Son, Men

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.87, eBookIt.com

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• It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

  Lady Gregory

  Son, Race, Land

  Lady Gregory (1905). “Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland”

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• Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

  Lady Gregory

  Men, Done, Young

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.521, eBookIt.com

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• I don’t hate redheads! The millionaire men - wealthy men - never pick them. Every time I offer them they say no. I could say the most gorgeous redhead in the world and they’ll say no, they don’t want it. Now if you ask an Irish guy in Ireland, he says yes. Because that’s indigenous to that country.

  Patti Stanger

  Country, Hate, Men

  "Patti Stanger, Millionaire Matchmaker, On New York Women, Marc Anthony, Season 5". Interview with Youyoung Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2011.

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• Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little interest in reunification, the IRA's prospects for success through political channels have always been limited.

  James Surowiecki

  Political, Majority, Ira

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• For the young Gaels of Ireland
  Are the lads that drive me mad,
  For half their words need footnotes
  And half their rhymes are bad.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Mad, Needs, Half

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• All I knew about Ireland before I went there was what I learned from watching soap commercials all my life. I was totally misinformed. I thought it was an Irish tradition where you don't even take a shower with your soap - you take your soap for a walk, you compliment the soap for a little while and then, suddenly, you just start hacking it up with a hunting knife.

  Arj Barker

  Hunting, Knives, Littles

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• Inter have bought the finished article and there's no doubt he can keep improving.

  Mick McCarthy

  Doubt, Articles, Improving

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• We seem to be a side that if we don't score we get beat.

  Jason McAteer

  Sides, Beats, Score

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• My grandfather is from Ireland. His name is Florence McCarthy. He moved to New York in 1920. They used to beat him up because his name was Florence. He had to switch his name to Frank. And then this Christmas, he made an announcement - he goes, 'I'm switching me name back to Florence.' And we beat him up, 'cause it's a dumb name and he's old and weak and it was easy.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  New York, Names, Dumb

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• It was amazing that I was ever elected.

  Ian Paisley

  Northern Ireland

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• I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings.

  Vinnie Jones

  Children, Home, Holiday

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• I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more.

  Colm Toibin

  Territory, Republic, Might

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• The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

  James Joyce

  Sea

  Ulysses (1922)

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• Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Fashion, Distance, Heart

  "Fictional character: Mr. Rochester". "Jane Eyre", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.

  Nora Roberts

  Land, Dancing, Dreamer

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.14, Penguin

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• The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

  Nora Roberts

  Romance, Lovely, Tears

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' The Irish Born Trilogy”, p.19, Penguin

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• There is more talent per square metre in Ireland than there is anywhere else. We just don't harness or help them ... the radio stations prefer to support the likes of Rihanna and Beyonce.

  Louis Walsh

  Squares, Support, Radio

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