#ireland

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#area #birth #boston #died #either

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous. ↗

— Van Morrison

#before #famous #i #i am #ireland

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

— Paul Muldoon

#i #i was born #ireland #life #lived

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#fact #good #hand #influence #ireland

The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish. ↗

— Eddie Murphy

#barring #been #better #catastrophe #economy

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#am #back #days #doing #drive

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#extraordinary #extraordinary thing #grew #happened #i

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#beyond #flag #flies #ireland #northern

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation. ↗

— Charles Stewart Parnell

#fragment #geographical #ireland #nation #should

I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House. ↗

— Deval Patrick

#drove #house #i #i do #identify