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Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is — Russell Baker

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

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about. — Austin O'Malley

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. — James Joyce

The best thing about flying first class ... was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba. — Sarah-Kate Lynch

But outside of the North of Ireland there is no religious question, and in the North it is fundamentally more political than religious. — James Stephens

In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining. — David Allen

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish. — Dominic West

I'm completely in love with you. What if I didn't leave, after all? — Tamara Ireland Stone

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles. — James Nesbitt

Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ... — Elizabeth Bowen

Colombians have been dealing with cocaine since your ancestors were running around Ireland with their bodies painted blue," Kingsley — Robert B. Parker

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy. — Patricia Ireland

In ancient Ireland the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world. — Orna Ross

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. — Seamus Heaney

Loss is a significant force that can serve as a catalyst for change. It can bring about an awakening, drawing out something sacred within us. — Mark Ireland

I like to experiment a lot and invent things. — Kathy Ireland

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition. — Loretta Lynn

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace — Patrick Pearse

Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place. — The Script

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take. — Kathy Ireland

I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world. — Colum McCann

I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family. — Ireland Baldwin

Do not hope to understand the source of my understanding. — Thomas Fitzgerald

I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera. — Kathy Ireland

Old, is it?" the man asks.
"Yes, very."
"Pre-war, is it?"
"Yes," I say. "If by war you mean the Norman invasion. — Garrett Carr

We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left. — Ian Paisley

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system. — Mary Robinson

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America. — Olivia Wilde

My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche. — Tony McCoy

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion. — Patrick Pearse

What can I say? I'm Irish, I love a good potato. — Sophia Tallon

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin. — Greta Scacchi

Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions. — Patricia Ireland

Usually, I end up being the frumpy or mentally challenged or in 'Reasons to Be Pretty', regular. Or a weirdo. I play a lot of weirdos. — Marin Ireland

I like to know where I stand with people, and I figure I owe them the same courtesy. — Tamara Ireland Stone

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another. — Samuel Johnson

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm. — Marianne Williamson

Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me. — James Nesbitt

I always ask the question, Is this what I want in my life? — Kathy Ireland

Ireland is a good place to start out as a filmmaker. If what you do is good, even at a very small scale, it will get recognized. — Lenny Abrahamson

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs. — Jeremy Hardy

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

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance. — William Butler Yeats

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. — Ciaran Hinds

We were in Ireland. Was there ever a country so damp? I had to wring out my mind to think clearly. I was a morning mist of confusion. — Jeanette Winterson

The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland — James Connolly

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. — Bobby Sands

My faith is important. I have nothing without it. — Kathy Ireland

The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour — James Connolly

I think being a woman is like being Irish ... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time. — Iris Murdoch

In Ireland there's no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes.
(In the Company of Others) — Jan Karon

I think I'm too much of a control freak. — Kathy Ireland

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. — James Joyce

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs. — Patricia Ireland

From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather. — Natalie Dormer

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation. — Ezra Pound

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it. — Edmund Burke

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

And I know I need to invite him over for dinner, because there's no question. This is serious. — Tamara Ireland Stone

That was never on my radar, traffic stopping. It was never important to me. — Kathy Ireland

I have always been a lover of the sun, even if, through spending a lifetime in Ireland, I have had little personal connection with it. — John Boyne

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. — John Boyle O'Reilly

I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself. — Seamus Heaney

I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway. — Damian McGinty

Why are all pretty boys insane? — Justina Ireland

I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk ... — John Geddes

For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U. — Jose Manuel Barroso

The trick is to recognize your mistakes, take what you need from them, and move on -Sue — Tamara Ireland Stone

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full. — Boyle Roche

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

Let us who hail from Ireland stand to the last by the stars and stripes! — Thomas Francis Meagher

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. — G.K. Chesterton

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

The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal. — Martin O'Neill

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

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn. — Kathy Ireland

If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people's thinking. — Sara Sheridan

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined. — David Frum

People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues. — Fionnula Flanagan

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe. — William E. Gladstone

We dont vote in Northern Ireland for what we want, we vote against what we dont want. — David

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

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations? — Dorothy Salisbury Davis

World is suddener than we fancy it. — Louis MacNeice

One person can do quite a lot." ~ Kevin — Jesseca Wheaton

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. — James Joyce

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. — James Larkin

I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite — Michael O'Leary

I'm a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life. — Jill Ireland

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

Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye. — Susan Mitchell

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control. — Martin McGuinness

In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure. — Kenneth Branagh

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond. — Liam Neeson

At three o'clock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland... — Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey

All of us knew he was a snake when we voted for him — Patricia Ireland

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

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We're reared tough, and we fight. — Conor McGregor

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