#ireland

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. ↗

— Dave Barry

#being #consumed #geographically #ireland #island

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

#die #great #great country #ireland #married

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas. ↗

— Enya

#areas #because #gaelic #ireland #long

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland. ↗

— James Larkin

#best #class #co-operative #commonwealth #could

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

#desolation #enemy #fields #fight #hills

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

#england #history #i #ireland #kept

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#back #because #conflict #derail #into

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