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“When the Internet arrived in Ireland... it was like having Amsterdam's Red Light District in your own living room.”

Light Rooms Internet Computer Red Ireland Living Room Amsterdam Red Lights

“In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.”

Two War Government Duty Active Budgets Airplane Ireland Teens Parachutes Northern Ireland Falklands

Author:Mark Burnett

“Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off”

Want Shows Bigs Ireland Big Things Idiom

Author:Dylan Moran

“...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.”

“It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.”

Firsts Chance Company India Entrepreneur Setting Settings Encounters Ireland Biotech Chance Encounters

Author:Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

“When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, the - Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore, although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.”

Ifs Thinking World Kids Wanted Universe Games Speak Pay Attention Cases Happenings Ireland Outside World Center Of The Universe Gaelic

Author:Roddy Doyle

“I've been asked why does Ireland produce so many great musicians, and the answer is it doesn't. When you count the great musicians Ireland has given the world in the last 20 years, you can do it on one hand.”

World Years Doe Hands Lasts Given Can Do Answers Produce Musician Ireland You Can Do It Great Music Great Musician

Author:Roddy Doyle

“My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.”

Want Enough Care Direct Scripts Partners Good Enough Want Me Ireland Who Cares

Author:Vincent D'Onofrio

“To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.”

Said Done Death Ireland

Author:Philip Sidney

“Can any of us refute the wisdom of Madison and the other framers? Can anyone look at the carnage in Iran, the bloodshed in Northern Ireland or the bombs bursting in Lebanon and yet question the dangers of injecting religious issues into the affairs of state?”

Looks States Church Religious Issues Danger Affair Bombs Iran Ireland Separation Of Church And State Bursting Bloodshed Lebanon Madison Northern Ireland Carnage Framers

Book:The Conscience of a Conservative

Source: The Conscience of a Conservative

“Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.”

Should Nations England Treated Ireland Fragments Being Irish Ireland And The Irish

Author:Charles Stewart Parnell

“When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.”

World Understanding Watches Sensitive Ireland Travel The World

Author:Chuck D

“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.”

Ifs Would Be Felt Voice Wake Up Inspired Ireland Songwriters Voices In My Head Very Inspired

Author:Steven Morrissey

“Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Culture Hurt Havens Drink Drinking Drunk Bad Things Ireland

Author:Andrea Corr

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

Firsts Given Tradition Ireland Communion First Communion

Author:Roma Downey

“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.”

Knows Heart Made Choices Creating Chosen Versions Ireland Head And Heart

Author:Michael D. Higgins

“For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.”

Important Certainty Investors Ireland

Author:Jose Manuel Barroso

“My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.”

Mother Generations New York Mets Grandmother Immigrants Ireland Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather Moscow Early 20s Odessa

Author:Alexis Denisof

“For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.”

Ifs War Together Taken Trouble Periods Add Shooting Ireland Incidents Riot Bombing Assassination Robbery Kidnapping Dublin Siege

Author:Frank Delaney

“Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.”

Body Spirit Ireland

Author:Hugh Dancy

“I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.”

Raised Lovely Ireland Old Fashioned

Author:Anne Enright

“In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.”

Persons Ireland Grandparent Static Surnames

Author:Anne Enright

“I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.”

People Thinking Writing I Can Wish Too Much Clever Hopeful Ireland Heartfelt Jennifer American Woman

Author:Anne Enright

“I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.”

Way Giving Writing Matter Fiction Give Me Ireland

Author:Anne Enright

“If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.”

Ifs Knows Believe Stills Book Choices Grows Growing Up Doubt Ireland Believe In Me Obliged

Author:Anne Enright

“I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really.”

Beautiful West Ireland County Stunning Derry

Author:Matthew William Goode

“Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.”

Giving Ireland Controversy

Author:Paul McCartney

“If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?”

Ifs Men Happiness Four Gambling Ireland Entitled Leafs Bad Luck Ireland And The Irish Clovers Four Leaf Clover

Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“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.”

Men Country Beautiful Found Father New York Men And Women Ireland Looking Good Being Irish Beautiful Country

Author:James Cagney

“A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.”

Firsts America Names Four Seeing Week Band Gun Rose Albums Ridiculous Ireland Unbelievable Highlights Debut Springsteen Guns N Roses

Author:Niall Horan

“We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.”

Community Justice Tomorrow Equal Bases Criminals Eras Features Division Ireland Criminal Justice New Era Prosecution Launching Northern Ireland Belfast

Author:Peter Hain

“When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.”

People Looks Done Values Opportunity Social Enjoy Water Justice Equal Social Justice Driven Radical Reform Theme Consistent Agendas Ireland Dogma Equal Opportunity Northern Ireland

Author:Peter Hain

“You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.”

People Whole Jobs Interesting Media Mines Debate Academic Ireland Speculation Northern Ireland

Author:Peter Hain

“I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Done Bits Black Laughing Comedy Fine Tradition Yeah Ireland Deliberate Streaks Make Me Laugh Best Comedy

Author:Sharon Horgan

“I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.”

Heart Book Hard Difficult Scripts Disappear Ireland Portraying Very Depressed

Author:Neil Jordan

“I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there.”

I Can Enough Moving Ireland

Author:Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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