Dublin Quotes
For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.
When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?
If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.
I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.
But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.
Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.
When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?
So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.
Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.
As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.
The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.
I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.
Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?
I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.
I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.
Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.
The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
I don't think I've actually drunk a beer for 15 years, except a few Guinnesses in Dublin, where it's the law.
RyanAir have been getting a hard time because they've launched a £7 flight to New York. Although as always with RyanAir it does land slightly outside of New York. In Dublin.
Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.
I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.
My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.
My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.
I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over the world, but this is the place I come back to and the place where I find it easiest to write.
Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.
There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.
by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.
England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.
Barrons’ lips twitched. I’d almost made him smile. Barrons smiles about as often as the sun comes out in Dublin, and it has the same effect on me; makes me feel warm and stupid.
James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.
It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.
Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.
Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added "...unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army."
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
The thought of hurting him ripped me apart. Ripped me so totally, that I knew, I cared more for him than I did myself.
And all this time he was cheating on me! Making a fool out of me! He made me look stupid in front of everyone!
