Ireland Quotations

Every publisher or agent I've ever met told me the same thing - that Irish readers don't want to read about the bad old days of the Troubles; neither do the English and Americans - they only want to read about the Ireland of The Quiet Man, when red-haired widows are riding bicycles and everyone else is on a horse.

It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.

In 1975, no State or Church guidelines existed in the Republic of Ireland to assist those responding to an allegation of abuse against a minor. No training was given to priests, teachers, police officers or others who worked regularly with children about how to respond appropriately should such allegations be made.

What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.

I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.

My sights have always been on acting, on the creative process, never the lifestyle. Growing up in Northern Ireland when I did, everything was against you if you wanted to do something like that. But I was determined.

Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures of our past, as a country, as a Church, or as an individual is never easy. Our struggle to heal the wounds of decades of violence, injury and painful memory in Northern Ireland are more than ample evidence of this.

When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!

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

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

I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn't do anything internationally - it was all in Ireland.

The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty.

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland

As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.

I traveled to Ireland to research 'Sandcastles,' to visit the coastline where my ancestors looked toward America, the tiny town they once loved so much, and the docks from which they sailed toward their dreams of building a better life for their family. The answers I found on that journey are woven through the novel.

Today, Church policy in Ireland is to report allegations of abuse to the civil authorities. It recognises the Gardai and H.S.E. as those with responsibility for investigating such allegations and that any Church investigation should not take place until the investigation by the civil authorities has been completed.

The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it was fury.

Money in property is dead money. It doesn't help the country. It's funny how the U.K., Ireland and Spain are the most property-obsessed nations in Europe and yet are also the ones suffering the most.

I love to go to Ireland just to relax.

In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out.

Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in 'Old Ireland.' It has been made all of kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can't think of anything else for definite.

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987

A harrassed and dubious childhood under the hand of a well-meaning but barbarous mother's help from County Armagh led me to think of the North of Ireland as prison and the South as a land of escape.

When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I went way out to the west coast of Ireland and rented a little house by myself.

I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

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

My parents were Northern Ireland Labour party people. We read the 'Guardian' and the 'New Statesman,' listened to the BBC. The house was full of books. We didn't get a television until 'That Was The Week That Was' started. There was nothing to do but read.

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.

I do think culture is an argument, and that was part of the way I was brought up. People at a social occasion in Ireland will start shouting and arguing. When the Yeats family lived in Bedford Park, they had to go round to the neighbours to say, 'You might think we are fighting, but this is the way we talk to each other.'

In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland for nine tenths of a century, will be repealed.

From space, the earth appears predominantly blue; the clouds are brilliant white. Surprisingly, you don't see much green, although Ireland looks green, and so do Scandinavia and New Zealand. The deserts are brick red and really stand out.

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.

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

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.

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

Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday I'll end up living there. When I've established myself in America and I don't need to live near the action, so to speak, and if you're good, the work will come to you. I feel very Irish; maybe that's why I've been so lucky with my career.

I'm involved in Northern Ireland Screen and have been for a long time, so I keep my eyes open and ears to the ground.

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.

What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.

Until a few years ago, it was never as popular over there as it was here. But by this point, it has been commercialized and is a pretty big celebration in Ireland and England.

We believe that the poorest nations of the world continue to look to Ireland to set the global standard for commitment to development aid, ... We also believe that there is a substantial support among the Irish people for a compelling and world-leading target, which will express their commitment to a more just and compassionate world.

There are some black sheep countries in Europe, and one of them was Ireland and it now appears that a second one may be France.

Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.

Ultimately it will be Kenny's decision. We'll review the situation at Christmas. He has been a fantastic servant for us and Ireland and he is good enough to carry on after this season.

Would I have been better off as a teacher in Ireland or Spain? It's a very difficult question to answer. You take the road and you travel along it. I probably would do the same thing again.

When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

The only way to get to the truth is a full public inquiry, this is the very least the prime minister and the Northern Ireland Secretary can do.

When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language they had. I felt very untalented.

The people of Northern Ireland will now judge Sinn Fein on their actions over the coming days, ... An end to the war means the weapons of terrorism must be destroyed and all forms of paramilitary violence must cease for good.

The people of Northern Ireland and people throughout the United Kingdom want to celebrate George's life in a positive way. He has been one of the greatest footballers that ever lived.

The process is moving forward and the process is moving forward towards a particular result and towards completion. and the sooner we get there the happier everyone in Northern Ireland will be,

What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a lot calmer than city folk with their iPads and their Android phones.

So for those who sometimes say that the process in the Middle East is hopeless we say we can look at Northern Ireland and take some hope from that.

Motivator will be declared and sent to Ireland as things stand. The rain is not due until Friday and, I stress, we need it to arrive but if the forecast is right he runs. He's in very good order, he's ready to rock and roll.

My dad came over from Ireland when he was 13 and lived on the streets, working on building sites, and has just retired from his job delivering furniture for John Lewis. My mum has had the same job for 30 years as a sales assistant at Marks and Spencer. They've always been really great; they just want me to be happy.

My hands were tied in terms of going to Ireland for half the shoot because of budget considerations by the producers.

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.

My dad had come from Ireland and worked in the mills. My mom was Scottish and worked as a domestic, ... I didn't have any relations who had ever gone to college. I knew I could handle the academics, but the mills were working. People were making a lot of money.

No, I'm going to need live-in help. I was thinking of calling my mom. I know she'd come, but she's got this trip to Ireland next month with her friends; it's something they've been planning for two years, and I'd hate to...

Never for one hour since then has the English government of Ireland rested upon anything except naked force and unabashed corruption.

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.

Personally I would have got rid of him four or five weeks ago (after England lost to Northern Ireland in a World Cup qualifier). But they have made the decision, so we have to stand by that.

On the evidence I have seen and heard, I believe that the security situation in Northern Ireland and the continuing danger of intimidation of those called for jury service, justifies the continued scheduling of offences.

I always wanted to be in movies but could never figure out a way of getting into them. There were none being made in Ireland at that time.

I am just excited by it all. The Bank of Ireland have already brought a rugby pedigree to our table and we are delighted it is continuing. They are key sponsors of Ulster Rugby and there is a tremendous amount of experience there. They have already brought a lot of guidance especially the way we should market things.

I belong to the faubourg Saint-Patrice called Ireland for short

But we have taken a long-term approach with both of them. They should be back in contention for the (Feb. 22) Ireland game, but for the time being we are happy with the make-up of the team.

Chris is very ambitious and he wants to play regularly for Northern Ireland and he knows he may have to move to achieve this.

I have always been immensely proud to represent Ireland and have always given 100 percent, but I feel the time is right to step aside and let the talented youngsters have a go.

I have a real affinity with Ireland and Dublin and the Irish, and I'm your greatest fan whenever there's a World Cup or European Championships on.

If Ireland wants to produce high-paid, high-productivity jobs in the future we need state of the art IT infrastructure.

I find it a little bit odd because in Ireland the jump racing is so popular, it's just huge. Here people look at us and say 'What's this?' Nobody knows what it is, where at home it's probably one of the most popular sports there is.

I can't exactly foresee the circumstances in which, you know, the American president can come in and be of help, ... But I was very grateful for the offer of that. And I think people in Northern Ireland will be as well.

France, England, Ireland and Wales are all strong opposition, especially at home. It will be a challenging tour.

Gaining more experience on asphalt is one of Chris's development objectives this year. The challenging stages in Ireland will be great practice for him. He needs all the asphalt experience he can get but, in particular, coming from sunny Australia, he hasn't had many chances to drive in the wet - that shouldn't be a problem in Ireland!

I expect that every Irish-American coming to Ireland says visiting makes them feel good to be here. But I feel drawn to Dingle, I feel a sense of coming home. For me that is what it is.

I expect an amazing atmosphere for the Irish team, and I know it won't be easy at all. I also expect typical commitment and desire. I think Ireland can play really good football.

I estimate a very conservative number of 25,000 dead homeboys. If 25,000 white people were killed in two decades of urban drive-bys, you could imagine there would be prime time television, there would be counseling, economic packages, truces would be negotiated by diplomats with experience in Northern Ireland or the Balkans.

If we win, I don't see how Ireland could better our points difference.

If we lose against the Faeroes, the Ireland match will no longer be decisive. It will just be a friendly. I'm not saying the Faeroe Islands are Brazil, but you have to beat them to play a worthwhile match in Ireland.

He has got to create confidence ... in Northern Ireland that the law will be observed and will be enforced, and when republicans are found to be behaving in a way that is contrary to their undertakings, that he will act.

Heinz is confident that this acquisition will meet the criteria for final clearance. This deal has already received approval from the merger authorities in Ireland and Germany.

He grew up in New York and Chicago and liked the idea of an authentic Irish pub in Fort Myers. He spent a lot of time in Ireland and the family has a home there.

We're positive because we saw what he did for Ireland as a player. He has played in three World Cups, so he has experience of those situations, and fingers crossed he can pass them on to us.

What we want in Ireland is a National University which will bring students together and educate them upon national lines.

I also wanted to bring in the question of class-consciousness and inequality of position. The people of Ireland have no right to be class conscious.

Kent is a different situation. I think it is fair to ask the question about Northern Ireland and Kent, but everyone would agree that Northern Ireland is uniquely different.