#ireland

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion. ↗

— Roma Downey

#first #given #ireland #money #tradition

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#catholic #catholic church #catholicism #church #conflict

Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#arctic #circle #considerable #far #gulf

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#consciously #grew #i #ireland #issue

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#arts #consider #european #had #i

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. ↗

— James Joyce

#her #ireland #old #sow

I love to go to Ireland just to relax. ↗

— Ron Wood

#i #i love #ireland #just #love

The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all changes at any time. In spite of hosts of deniers, and asserters, and wise-men, and professors, the majority still are adverse to sitting down to dine thirteen at a table, or being helped to salt, or walking under a ladder, of seeing a single magpie flirting his chequered tale. There are, of course, children of light who have set their faces against all this, although even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary, if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#celts #folklore #ireland #irish #supernatural

Cad é an mhaith dom eagla a bheith orm? Ní shaorfadh eagla duine ón mbás, dar ndóigh. ↗

— Peig Sayers

#death #eagla #fear #gaeilge #ireland

It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before. ↗

— Mary McAleese

#accident #after #aspect #before #come