Ireland Quotes - Page 19

• And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one of them, and I read the opening words of the letter, which were, The voice of the Irish...and as I read the beginning of the letter I thought that at the same moment I heard their voice - they were those beside the Wood of Voclut, which is near the Western Sea - and thus did they cry out as with one mouth: We ask thee, boy, come and walk among us once more.

  Saint Patrick

  Faith, Inspiration, Boys

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• I'm sure there's a hell of a party in Ireland now and I know I don't have anything to do for two-and-a-half days so I'm going to party on

  Padraig Harrington

  Party, Two, Half

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• For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed.

  James T. Walsh

  Running, Business, Government

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• These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing intermarriage between Celtic and English dynasties - helped to consolidate a new unitary ruling class in place of the more separate and specific landed establishments that had characterised England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Tudor and Stuart eras.

  Linda Colley

  Land, Class, Tudors

  Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.161, Yale University Press

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• I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.

  Anne Enright

  Writing, Giving, Fiction

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• At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.

  Stephen Rea

  Country, People, Division

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• In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

  Anne Enright

  Grandparent, Surnames, Static

  "Author, author: Name that plume" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2008.

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• I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.

  Anne Enright

  Clever, Writing, Thinking

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• If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.

  Anne Enright

  Growing Up, Believe, Book

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• Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

  Paul McCartney

  Giving, Controversy

  Song: Give Ireland Back to the Irish

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• We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.

  Peter Hain

  Justice, Community, Criminals

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• I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

  Aidan Quinn

  Thinking, People, My Family

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• When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.

  Peter Hain

  Opportunity, People, Justice

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• We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were raised in the Protestant faith. Bono's mother was Protestant and his father was Catholic. I was brought up Catholic. U2 are a living example of the kind of unity of faith and tradition that is possible in Northern Ireland.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Mother, Father, Mean

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• I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

  Anne Enright

  Lovely, Old Fashioned, Raised

  "Anne Enright, Author, Answers Questions About ‘The Forgotten Waltz’". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.

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• Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.

  Hugh Dancy

  Body, Spirit

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• Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible.

  James Nesbitt

  Winning, Decision, Political

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

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• Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Heart, Creating, Choices

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

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• For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Important, Certainty, Investors

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• My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

  Alexis Denisof

  Mother, New York, Grandfather

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Church, Aristocracy, Population

  'Hansard' 16 February 1844

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• I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didnt know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that beyond became internalized in our psyche.

  Conor McPherson

  Years, Europe, People

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• The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.

  Will Rogers

  Home, Rights, Giving

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• For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.

  Frank Delaney

  War, Taken, Together

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

  Martin McGuinness

  Mistake, Thinking, Process

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