. . . in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.
I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.
I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
Ah, Ireland. . . That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.
My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.
That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!
The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour
In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty.
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.
Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.
When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.
I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.
I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful.
Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.
Ireland has a role to play in making the E. U. united and strong.
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.