#ireland

Ireland is probably named the “Emerald Isle” because there are lots of precious stones found there, such as sapphires and rubies.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ireland #change

When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man. ↗

— Frank Delaney

#storytelling #travel #inspirational

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#imagination #ireland #love #soul #imagination

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#ireland #irish #know #like #rock

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

— Hugh Dancy

#body #great #ireland #spirit #very

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

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#country #full #genius #ireland #problem

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

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