You’ve got to exchange the populations of Holland and Ireland. Then the Dutch will turn Ireland into a beautiful garden and the Irish will forget to mend the dikes and will all be drowned.
Otto von Bismarck
I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
It's not a hard sell to be asked to do something in Ireland.
Dublin's a great place. It really is. It's a great place. And Ireland, especially, is a great place. I've realized that growing up more. I'm loving my country more as I'm getting older.
The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.
Believe it or not, one of the first poets I was aware of was Yeats. I recited 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' at a verse speaking competition when I was eight or nine.
I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really.
I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there.
I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.
I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.
I spent a lot of time growing up in Ireland in Donegal.
I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.
That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.
Ireland, once you live there, you're seduced by it.
I'll always be somebody who spends a lot of time in a lot of places; that's just always going to be the way. But I try to spend as much time in Ireland as I can, because it's lovely, and it feels like a release.
I love to go to Ireland just to relax.
Ireland is the most disagreeable place in Europe—a wretched, dirty dog-hole and prison.
I'm always happy to be in Ireland in general, it's one of my favorite places.
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 think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.
If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn In the Pool they told us the story How the English divided the land.
Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.
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.
