47 Dublin Quotes for You to Enjoy

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. Brendan Behan

Death Me Back Absence Could Said Dublin Came Shoot Sentenced

Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country; an army of buildings come and take away a beautiful park, and you never seem to get quite out of sight of a row of houses. George A. Moore

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I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that. Aidan Turner

School Dublin Years Left Five Did After Gaiety Theater Acting

Former Dublin newsman Paul Lynch made his debut as a novelist a few years ago with a book called 'Red Sky in Morning,' set in mid-19th century County Donegal, where a rage-driven farmer has committed a murder with devastating results. Alan Cheuse

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified. Anjelica Huston

Old Possible Find Pockets More More And More Becoming Dublin Still

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. Barry Keoghan

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I grew up in Summerhill in Dublin's inner city, and I came across an open audition, and they were looking for inner city kids who had not acted. I signed up. Barry Keoghan

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My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community. Colin Farrell

Music History Sense Community Dublin Traditional Traditional Music Place

Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here. Colm Toibin

I remember, I was doing 'Jesus Christ Superstar' in London in the early '70s, and friends of mine had come over from Dublin, and they're knocking on the stage door after the show saying, 'Colm, come on, let's go for a drink.' I knew that if I went with them, I wouldn't be able to do my job the next day. Colm Wilkinson

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I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life. Eavan Boland

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In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not. Eavan Boland

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For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges. Frank Delaney

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I think that's why you see so many Americans in Dublin look so sad: they are looking for the door through which they can begin to understand this place. I tell them, 'Go to the races.' I think it's the best place to start understanding the Irish. Frank McCourt

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The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin. Gerry Adams

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Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't very difficult for me. There was very little acting going on. Glen Hansard

Love Me Difficult Guy Writes Songs Well Dublin Falls Very Going Little Acting Who Street Playing

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin. Greta Scacchi

Staying Week Student Dublin Came Years Years Ago Ireland Round

I loved the energy of Dublin and the fact that it's so close to the sea, with beauty spots such as Howth so close to hand. Honeysuckle Weeks

Beauty Energy Fact Spots Dublin Hand Close Loved Sea

My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to growing up was John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. It's music that feels like home to me. Hozier

I think that I must be the only person who left California and headed to Dublin in pursuit of a career in film. The arrow is pointing in the other direction in most people's minds. Lenny Abrahamson

People Think Other Minds Must Direction Only Pointing Pursuit Headed Most California Dublin Arrow Left Person Who Film Career

After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading and writing. I also received degrees in London and Dublin - where I moved to be near a charming Irishman who became my husband! Linda Sue Park

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