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Next to President of the United States, Ambassador to Ireland is surely one of the best jobs an Irish American can hold.
My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.
I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.
I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages.
I've been all over the world. I've been to Japan, Africa, Morocco, everywhere. Heck yeah, I would go to Ireland. Why not?
In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.
I grew up in very rural Ireland. The Internet was kind of a connection to the greater world. It had a lot of significance.
My little sister Debbie was born at Aldergrove, and my nan is from southern Ireland, so I do try and get over quite a bit.
Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.
Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn't matter where you come from but where you want to go.
Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country where the domestic market counts much more than the external market.
I moved to London when I was 18 to develop my acting career, but I still love going home to Ireland to recharge my batteries.
Ireland has always been a nation of great athletes from the past: in the nineties, we had Sonia O'Sullivan and Steve Collins.
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.
What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
We have to face up to the fact that without the armed uprising in 1916 Britain would not have withdrawn from southern Ireland.
I can make my living out of Ireland, but the reason I came to London was that I felt I'd gone as far as I could go in Ireland.
I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
We have to show the E.U. and show Ireland that our commitment to the Belfast Good Friday agreement is absolutely unconditional.
When The Cranberries got really big in Ireland, it became difficult for me to be there with all the photographers and paparazzi.
I've often said it: that it is seen to be a place of energy, of excitement, of enthusiasm. That there's something about Ireland.
I don't know if I'll quit Ireland. I like living here because I like the people here, but you never know what's going to happen.
Ireland is a good place to start out as a filmmaker. If what you do is good, even at a very small scale, it will get recognized.
My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.
I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really.
World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy.
I was big into hip-hop as a kid, and when I was eighteen, I got into dance and rave music, which was popular in Ireland at the time.
It was easy for some to jump on the Brexit result and use it to make a land-grab for Northern Ireland, and it was counterproductive.
In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.
The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
Home in Ireland, I went to Collins Barracks and spent some time wandering around, making notes on the various guns, knives and swords.
I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.
In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein.
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.
It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
'Vikings' has been a great experience. You get so many great friends. And I love Ireland and the people and crew. It's a beautiful place.
I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.
My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.
My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.
I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House.
It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.
My husband hailed from Dagenham; he's an Essex boy. Me myself, I come from Derry City in the northwest of Ireland, so we love to get back.