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"I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun."
-- Gabriel Byrne |
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"Though the pen is mightier than the sword, the sword speaks louder and stronger at any given moment."
-- Leonard Wibberley |
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"When I get a very generous introduction like that, I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials."
-- General Barry McCaffrey |
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"A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else."
-- John B. Keane |
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"Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century."
-- John McGahern |
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"The immigrant's heart marches to the beat of two quite different drums, one from the old homeland and the other from the new. The immigrant has to bridge these two worlds, living comfortably in the new and bringing the best of his or her ancient identity and heritage to bear on life in an adopted homeland."
-- McAleese |
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"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."
-- Seamus Heaney |
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"I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it."
-- John B. Keane |
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"Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war."
-- Gerry Adams |
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"Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island."
-- Gerry Adams |
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"A drunkard is a dead man, and all dead men are drunk."
-- Yeats |
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