Ireland Quotes

Ireland Quote of the day

The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

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.

No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

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

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented

No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

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

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.

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.

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible

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

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.

I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.

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.

[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.

The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

I speak many times about Stephen Ireland, that he is shy like a hedgehog.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here.

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.