#ireland

Romantic Ireland's dead and gone It's with O' Leary in the grave (September 1913) ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#irish-politics #yeats #romantic

Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there. ↗

— Bernie Mcgill

#historical-fiction #ireland #irish #literary-fiction #mother

I heard you went to Ireland...I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful? Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#ireland #beauty

I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#asked #been #count #does #given

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong. ↗

— John Bruton

#making #play #role #strong #united

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#british #chinese #chinese people #enslaving #free

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#add #could #defeated #history #i

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

What Ireland needs now above all else is peace. ↗

— Albert Reynolds

#else #ireland #needs #now #peace

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#connected #demographic #determine #did #done