#ireland

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

Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die. ↗

— Bono

#baby #blow #day #die #ethiopia

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#american #been #enjoy #freedom #friendship

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. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#cafe #culture #dublin #fantastic #ireland

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence. ↗

— Bernadette Devlin

#been #best #church #conservatism #equality

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#day-to-day #had #happening #ireland #level

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#before #died #father #homestead #i

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. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#core #decency #endless #i #i love

Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#choice #chosen #creating #future #head

You are not speaking for yourself, but for Ireland. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#speaking #you #yourself