#ireland

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

— Maggie Stiefvater

#horses #ireland #monsters #november #fantasy

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#ireland #irish #women #feminism

The Irish people didn't get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I see. You can't blame them for that. If I understand correctly, Catholics do not believe in contraception. So, you know, sex is not relaxing. ↗

— Jaclyn Moriarty

#contraception #history-of-ireland #sex #catholicism

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

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#ireland #irish #apocalypse

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening. And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV. ↗

— Peter Hitchens

#americans #anti-british-sentiment #braveheart #britons #eavesdropping

I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward. ↗

— Peter Hain

#always #asked #back #been #forward

Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland. ↗

— Martin McGuinness

#fein #growing #ireland #island #party

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#been #felt #head #i #inspired

There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#always #anybody #drink #else #example

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do! ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#american #christ #each #hate #holy