#ireland

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

— Dee Dee Myers

#argentina #being #chile #elected #encouraged

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#cream #dublin #ireland #rich #thick

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

— Georgia Salpa

#english #get #i #ireland #lot

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

— Dominic West

#ireland #mum #parents #were

...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors, and every farmer claims he is a king. ↗

— David Willis McCullough

#ireland #age

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#sorrow #art

THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#found #girl #hungry #ireland #lost

I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living* them! How was I to know I'd have to capture everything I ever wanted to remember of Eire for the rest of my life? ↗

— Kate McCafferty

#ireland #memory #business

Gladstone .. spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question, ... ↗

— W.C. Sellar

#irish-question #change

You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything. ↗

— The Script

#courage #fortitude #ireland #music #strength