The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

James Joyce

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To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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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.

W.B. Yeats

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[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

Courtney Love

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The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

Nora Roberts

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I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

Iris Murdoch

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Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,
Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;
In exile thy bosom shall still be my home,
And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

Thomas Moore

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Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs.

Frank Harte

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… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never having been taught how to freely speculate, how to profoundly question, and how to playfully define.

Spontaneity of speculation being synonymous with the philosophical-poetic, the philosophical-poetic with the rural philosopher-poet, and by roundelay the rural philosopher-poet thee with the spontaneity of speculation be.

And by the way of the rural what may we say?
A philosopher-poet of illimitable space we say.

Iohannes Scottus Ériugena the metaphor of old salutes you; salutes your lyrical ear and your skilful strumming of the rippling harp.

(Source: Hearing in the Write, Canto 19, Ivy-muffled)

Richard McSweeney

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Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.

Pádraic Pearse

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