#ireland

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

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish. ↗

— Dominic West

#ireland #mum #parents #were

...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors, and every farmer claims he is a king. ↗

— David Willis McCullough

#ireland #age

Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place. ↗

— The Script

#music #rage #singing #the-script #writing

A ógánaigh... ná bris an ghloine ghlan 'tá eadrainn (ní bhristear gloine gan fuil is pian) óir tá Neamh nó Ifreann thall 'gus cén mhaith Neamh mura mairfidh sé go bráth? ní Ifreann go hIfreann iar-Neimhe... (Impí) ↗

— Caitlín Maude

#gaeilge #grá #impí #ireland #irish

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. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#hatred

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. ↗

— James Joyce

#irish #lyrical #sea #lyrics

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

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China. ↗

— John Bruton

#american companies #china #companies #country #indeed