Ireland And The Irish Quotes - Page 2

• We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.

  William Butler Yeats

  Country, People, Political

  Speech in Seanad on government measure outlawing divorce, 11 June 1925

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• Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Air, Years, Two

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• You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.

  Charles Haughey

  Giving, Rope, Enough

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• Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

  Charles Stewart Parnell

  England, Should, Fragments

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• Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

  Seamus Heaney

  Fire, Political, Matter

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• The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

  Sean Connery

  Fire, Scots, Seems

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• I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

  Edna O'Brien

  Long, Catholic, Guilt

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• Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Blood, Language, Birth

  "Irishness". New Statesman, January 17, 1959.

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• Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?

  Eamon de Valera

  Heart, Fighting, Years

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• You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.

  Patrick Pearse

  Children, Passion, Winning

  Patrick Pearse at his court-martial, publish by the 75th Anniversary Committee, Dublin, 1991.

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

  Hugh Leonard

  Sarcastic, Country, Genius

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• Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

  John McGahern

  Rain, Sky, Identity

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• Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

  Samuel Beckett

  Funny, Hilarious, Dublin

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• Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

  Gerry Adams

  Islands, Talking, Calming Effect

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

  John B. Keane

  Thinking, Inferiority, Hurling

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• The immigrant's heart marches to the beat of two quite different drums, one from the old homeland and the other from the new. The immigrant has to bridge these two worlds, living comfortably in the new and bringing the best of his or her ancient identity and heritage to bear on life in an adopted homeland.

  Mary McAleese

  Heart, Bridges, Two

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• Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

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• Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

  William Butler Yeats

  Joy, Tragedy, Abiding

  "Spencer Tracy: A Biography". Book by James Curtis, www.indiewire.com. 2011.

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• Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

  Shane Leslie

  Speech, St Patrick, Funny Irish

  Shane Leslie (1936). “American wonderland: memories of four tours in the United States of America (1911-1935).”, London, M. Joseph

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• Books, the children of the brain.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Children, Book

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.372, Bantam Classics

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• May you live all the days of your life.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Jonathan Swift (1768). “The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: With the author's life and character; notes, historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition ... Accurately corrected by the best editions”, p.153

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• I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

  Gregory Peck

  Stubborn, Streaks

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

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Love Is

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.

  Robert Emmet

  Country, Writing, Men

  Speech at trial after being sentenced to death, 19 Sept. 1803

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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