“ We are now concentrating fully on Ireland and this will be a very important match. But on the other hand we should not try to score at any price because we are not obliged to win. ”
- Thierry Henry- Copy
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“ Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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“ You know how it is with some girls. They seem to take the stuffing right out of you. I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower. ”
- P.G. Wodehouse- Copy
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“ The lord deputy of Ireland doth great wonders and governs like a king, and hath taught that kingdom to show us an example of envy, by having parliaments and knowing wisely how to use them. ”
- Thomas Roe- Copy
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“ Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea. Each blade of thy meadows my faithful heart prizes, Thou queen of the west, the world's cushla ma chree. ”
- John Philpot Curran- Copy
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“ O, love is the soul of a true Irishman; He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can, With his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ I expect an amazing atmosphere for the Irish team, and I know it won't be easy at all. I also expect typical commitment and desire. I think Ireland can play really good football. ”
- Thierry Henry- Copy
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“ Mr. Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. ”
- James Joyce- Copy
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“ Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- James Cagney- Copy
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“ It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time. ”
- Anjelica Huston- Copy
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“ What we want in Ireland is a National University which will bring students together and educate them upon national lines. ”
- Douglas Hyde- Copy
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“ Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift. ”
- Liam Neeson- Copy
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“ If you are to give him the whole of Great Britain and Ireland for an estate, he would ask the Isle of Man for a potato garden. ”
- Lord North- Copy
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“ I expect that every Irish-American coming to Ireland says visiting makes them feel good to be here. But I feel drawn to Dingle, I feel a sense of coming home. For me that is what it is. ”
- Gregory Peck- Copy
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“ When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. 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. ”
- James Joyce- Copy
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“ If the Earth got invaded by another planet or an alien race, we would all come together. Whether it's Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, whether it's Israel and Palestine, whether it's black and white, whether it's north and south, whether it's Iran versus Iraq - we would forget our differences, because we now have a common goal… to beat the enemy. ”
- Jerry Doyle- Copy
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“ Consider the work of the association in reviving our ancient national game of caman, or hurling, and Gaelic football, has done more for Ireland than all the speeches of politicians for the last five years. And it is not alone that that splendid association revived for a time with vigour our national sport, but it revived also our national recollections, and the names of the various clubs through the country have perpetuated the memory of the great and good men and martyrs of Ireland. ”
- Douglas Hyde- Copy
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“ Th' an'am an Dhia, but there it is — The dawn on the hills of Ireland. God's angels lifting the night's black veil From the fair sweet face of my sireland! O Ireland, isn't it grand, you look Like a bride in her rich adornin', And with all the pent up love of my heart I bid you the top of the morning. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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“ I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history. ”
- Albert Reynolds- Copy
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“ I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill; For his country he sigh'd, when at twilight repairing. To wander along by the wind-beaten hill. But the day star attracted his eyes' sad devotion, For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean, Where once in the fire of his youthful emotion He sang the bold anthem of Erin-go-bragh. ”
- Thomas Campbell- Copy
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“ I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God. ”
- Saint Patrick- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ When my mother died, I was 17 years old, and I literally got on a plane and flew to America, and didn't really come back. I have been back to Ireland in short spurts, just skimming the surface of my formative years. ”
- Anjelica Huston- Copy
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