Quotes about Ireland
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
- Samuel Beckett
The road through Irish history is made up of lanes which wind about, and never come to an end till they twist into pathways which never begin.
- Charles Spurgeon
it is the most Catholic country in the world—more Catholic than Ireland, and certainly much more so than the Vatican.
- Isabel Allende
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
- Pope John Paul II
I took my Canadian perspective over to Ireland and dug around, and I found a very interesting story and brought it back.
- Kari Skogland
The introduction of the Protestant religion into Ireland may be principally attributed to George Browne, an Englishman, who was consecrated archbishop of Dublin on the nineteenth of March, 1535.
- John Foxe
Oh, Paddy, dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round? The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground! No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his colour can't be seen, For there's a cruel law agin' the Wearin' o' the green.
- Anonymous
In Ireland they put their children to fosterers: the rich sell, the meaner sort buying the alterage of their children; and the reason is, because in the opinion of the people, fostering has always been a stronger alliance than blood.Sir John Davieson Ireland.
- Samuel Johnson
It was not English arms, but the English Constitution, that conquered Ireland.
- Edmund Burke