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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.
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.
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.
But I believe Ireland is getting more European, and the young are looking toward Europe for jobs - just as there are a lot of Europeans coming to Dublin.
On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.
I made my final collection in college in London using Irish handwoven wool. That is how I discovered Ireland first; I just fell in love with it, really.
The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.
I've always honestly and openly said I believe in a united Ireland, but the point was to try and get to a united Ireland without the violence.
I knew I was going to lose my house in Ireland and all the other properties. It's all gone. But my house was the one material thing that was very important to me.
Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.
People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!
If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
When I had my first child, I went back to Ireland to live with my mother. So, a typical day there was me being a mother, with my mum showing me how to do things.
We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.
I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.
I am proud that Ireland is playing its part to drive an ambitious and comprehensive agreement at COP21.
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
'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 have equal respect and love for both England and Ireland, and therefore, the national team I choose to represent is not a clear-cut, simple selection.
It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.
My ultimate dream would be for Derry City to become champions of an all-Ireland league in a united Ireland.
We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
There was a lot of politics going on, and Ireland were denied an Olympic gold medal in 2008.
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.
When I looked at my mother, I always saw a bit of Ireland. And I suppose when I look to Ireland, I see a bit of my mother - her faith, her wit, her endurance.
Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.
I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say, into some kind of - onto the best seller list.
I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me.
Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.
As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
Geographically, we are at the periphery of Europe, but I don't see Ireland in that way. The way I see us is as an island at the center of the world.
It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland.
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.
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.
It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
I know when my father travelled 5,000 miles to make his home in Ireland, I doubt he ever dreamed that his son would one day grow up to be its leader.
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.
Foreign investors like decisiveness; they like clarity. There isn't any confusion about Ireland's corporate tax rate: it is 12.5%. End of story.
I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein.
Unless people who voted for unionist parties are suddenly going to vote for a united Ireland, which I don't believe will happen, a border poll will be defeated.
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.
By far, the greatest contribution Ireland can make is to lead by example, by actively pursuing its own transition to a sustainable, low-carbon economy.
What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
Our visits to the United States have brought huge benefits by helping attract foreign direct investment on a scale not previously seen in the north of Ireland.
The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school.
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.