#ireland

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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.


Richard Russo


#center #dublin #england #ever #had

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.


Greta Scacchi


#came #dublin #hitch-hiking #i #i came

That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.


Clare Short


#feeds #got #heavens #i #ireland

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.


Queen Elizabeth II


#almost #become #come #exactly #exciting

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.


James Taylor


#basically #brazil #catch #cultures #extremely

The smell of the earth, so astoundingly fresh: it strikes Brown like a thing he might eat. His ears throb. His body feels as if it is still moving through the air. He is, he thinks, the first man ever to fly and stand at the exact same time. The war out of the machine. He holds the small bag of letters up in salute. On they come, soldiers, people, the light drizzle of gray. Ireland. A beautiful country. A bit savage on a man all the same. Ireland.


Colum McCann


#beauty

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.


William E. Gladstone


#consequence #cruelty #foe #friend #her

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.


James Larkin


#best #class #co-operative #commonwealth #could

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.


James Larkin


#desolation #enemy #fields #fight #hills

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


Peter Mandelson


#back #because #conflict #derail #into