#ireland

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#allow #budget #did #duty #falklands

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European. ↗

— James Joyce

#european #first #ireland #must #new

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

At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again. ↗

— Robbie Keane

#back #caught #club #come #concentrate

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy. ↗

— Anjelica Huston

#ireland #kinds #lunacy #oh

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#i #ireland #like #place #renewal

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young. ↗

— Donal Logue

#i #ireland #me #missionary #mom

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists. ↗