I didn't start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland.
People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.
I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.
Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn't matter where you come from but where you want to go.
There's a lot I've missed about living in Ireland. You miss family, particularly when you've got kids.
For men were born to pray and save:
Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
It's with O'Leary in the grave.
Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.
We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
Northern Ireland, England, Scotland - when we play each other, you don't want to lose to a neighbouring country.
Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.
I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.
The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.
Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.
I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987
For me, people in Ireland who became actors would have to go through the Billy Barry's in Dublin.
It was easy for some to jump on the Brexit result and use it to make a land-grab for Northern Ireland, and it was counterproductive.
I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast.
Sweden endured a potato famine like in Ireland and loads of people emigrated to the US.
Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.
Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that.
If I knew I could never come back to Ireland, to England, I think I'd fall off the tree.
There was a lot of politics going on, and Ireland were denied an Olympic gold medal in 2008.
I am proud that Ireland is playing its part to drive an ambitious and comprehensive agreement at COP21.
I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty.
The landscape in Ireland is just - I've never been in such a beautiful place with the lakes and ocean and everything.
We would only need a bespoke solution for Northern Ireland if Britain leaves the Single Market.
I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me.
There's talented players in the Ireland set-up and if we can get all us gelling together, you'll have a good team.
I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.
Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.
It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
I'm sure there's some sort of cynicism or fatalism in Ireland and England. We are fatalistic here, and sometimes we need to be shaken out of that.
The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.
I would rather go back to when I started doing music in Ireland and it was all live. I mean you just don't mime.
I've often said it: that it is seen to be a place of energy, of excitement, of enthusiasm. That there's something about Ireland.
Only the political process offers the real prospect of a united Ireland at peace with itself.
We have achieved tremendous success in Ireland and internationally on the strength of our creativity and design skills.
Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.
There was nobody in the city I came from - Cork, Ireland - that I could link up with to teach me the guitar.
Next to President of the United States, Ambassador to Ireland is surely one of the best jobs an Irish American can hold.
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.
I feel that I'll be buried in Ireland and don't think I'll ever live in the U.S. I'm not comfortable with many aspects of U.S. society - especially the justice system.
You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.
In Ireland, I have 50-something cousins. My dad is one of six or seven and it's my second home. I am so proud to be from there.
It's up to me to find a way to bring out my best game when I put on the Ireland jersey.
I'm involved in Northern Ireland Screen and have been for a long time, so I keep my eyes open and ears to the ground.
We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century
When The Cranberries got really big in Ireland, it became difficult for me to be there with all the photographers and paparazzi.
We have to face up to the fact that without the armed uprising in 1916 Britain would not have withdrawn from southern Ireland.
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.
I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home.
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