Quotes by Irish/Ireland authors (page 44)

"I do enjoy working with writers"

"A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them"

Thomas Francis Meagher, Soldier

"It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion"

Roma Downey, Actress

"I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids"

Roma Downey, Actress

"We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory"

Mary McAleese, Statesman

"We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists"

Josephine Hart, Writer

"There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives"

Josephine Hart, Writer

"I got very carried away with my 'Harry Potter' life and we did have school but I didn't study. I just had fun"

Evanna Lynch, Actress

"I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it"

Douglas Hyde, Politician

"The country is in an extraordinary ferment"

William Hamilton Maxwell, Novelist

"I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared"

Patrick MacGill, Journalist

"Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process"

Martin McGuinness, Politician

"The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move"

Martin McGuinness, Politician

"The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door"

Martin McGuinness, Politician

"Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens"

Martin McGuinness, Politician

"If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere"

Martin McGuinness, Politician

"No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine"

Pierce Brosnan, Actor

"There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?"

Neil Jordan, Director

"My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end"

Neil Jordan, Director

"I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well"

Neil Jordan, Director

"I took two years away from making films to write a novel"

Neil Jordan, Director

"But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened"

Neil Jordan, Director

"I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between"

Roma Downey, Actress

"Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the class divide or the historical baggage - it was also the age difference. We had to see if I could be aged-up legitimately, without it becoming some sort of hokey acting challenge"

Brendan Gleeson, Actor

"My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe"

Brendan Gleeson, Actor

"Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail"

Brendan Gleeson, Actor

"It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas"

Enya, Musician

"I use my voice as an instrument"

Enya, Musician

"As with anything creative, change is inevitable"

Enya, Musician

"Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time"

Pierce Brosnan, Actor

"Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely"

Pierce Brosnan, Actor

"There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace"

David Trimble, Politician

"The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do"

David Trimble, Politician