#ireland

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#ireland #irish #apocalypse

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die. ↗

— Bono

#baby #blow #day #die #ethiopia

I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland. ↗

— Kenny Cunningham

#hugely #i #i am #ireland #played

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#cafe #culture #dublin #fantastic #ireland

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#been #best #church #conservatism #equality

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. ↗

— Brian Eno

#coming #conflict #countries #czech #czech republic

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland. ↗

— Terri Windling

#always #british #celtic #celtic music #college

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. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#before #died #father #homestead #i

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#core #decency #endless #i #i love

Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#choice #chosen #creating #future #head