#ireland

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother. ↗

— Boyle Roche

#embrace #england #i #ireland #like

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full. ↗

— Boyle Roche

#centuries #cup #full #half #half full

I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there. ↗

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

#enough #i #ireland #move #say

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

I try to clutch onto those last moments in the place that I was born to, but I was so busy *living* them! How was I to know I'd have to capture everything I ever wanted to remember of Eire for the rest of my life? ↗

— Kate McCafferty

#ireland #memory #business

Gladstone .. spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question, ... ↗

— W.C. Sellar

#irish-question #change

Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour.” {Source: A Green Desert Father} ↗

— Richard Mc Sweeney

#esoteric #fashion #freedom-of-thought #ireland #irish-poet

A ógánaigh... ná bris an ghloine ghlan 'tá eadrainn (ní bhristear gloine gan fuil is pian) óir tá Neamh nó Ifreann thall 'gus cén mhaith Neamh mura mairfidh sé go bráth? ní Ifreann go hIfreann iar-Neimhe... (Impí) ↗

— Caitlín Maude

#gaeilge #grá #impí #ireland #irish

Out of Ireland have we come. Great hatred, little room, Maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb A fanatic heart. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#hatred

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. ↗

— James Joyce

#irish #lyrical #sea #lyrics