#ireland

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#die #great #great country #ireland #married

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. ↗

— James Joyce

#ireland #sober #stiff

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

— Hugh Dancy

#body #great #ireland #spirit #very

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century. ↗

— John McGahern

#almost #century #ireland #nineteenth #nineteenth century

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners. ↗

— John McGahern

#also #beautiful #fact #form #formal

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 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

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

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

#back #break #country #division #found