#ireland

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The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all changes at any time. In spite of hosts of deniers, and asserters, and wise-men, and professors, the majority still are adverse to sitting down to dine thirteen at a table, or being helped to salt, or walking under a ladder, of seeing a single magpie flirting his chequered tale. There are, of course, children of light who have set their faces against all this, although even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary, if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching.


W.B. Yeats


#celts #folklore #ireland #irish #supernatural

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.


Donal Logue


#i #ireland #me #missionary #mom

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.


John McGahern


#dead #english #english language #everything #gaelic

Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.


Martin McGuinness


#been #i #i think #ireland #mistake

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


Martin McGuinness


#fein #growing #ireland #island #party

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.


Alan Parker


#also #because #difficult #even #exists

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.


John Edward Redmond


#assembled #binding #denied #denies #either

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


#beautiful country #both #country #father #found

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.


Henry Charles Carey


#british #chinese #chinese people #enslaving #free

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.


Roma Downey


#first #given #ireland #money #tradition