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I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.
Anjelica Huston
Television
Until
Reader
Because
Ireland
Child
Avid
If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
Anne Enright
Time
Me
You
Own
Believe
Books
Exactly
Some
Obliged
Writer
Attempt
Days
Know
Read
Am
Still
Up
Ireland
Then
Really
Choice
Your
Doubts
Grow
Grow Up
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.
Anne Enright
Me
Women
Writing
Matters
Sense
Way
Say
Some
Small
Gives
Ireland
Very
Fiction
Literary
Literary Fiction
Many
Aware
Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday I'll end up living there. When I've established myself in America and I don't need to live near the action, so to speak, and if you're good, the work will come to you. I feel very Irish; maybe that's why I've been so lucky with my career.
Anne Hathaway
Work
Myself
Good
You
Speak
Amazing
Will
Country
Action
Live
Living
Back
Dream
Someday
Head
Feel
Come
Been
End
Up
Ireland
Very
Irish
America
Maybe
Established
Little
Lucky
Why
Near
Career
Need
I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.
Anne McCaffrey
Good
Pension
Stuff
Ireland
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
Anne McCaffrey
Love
Words
Will
Living
Changed
Say
Possible
Since
Ireland
Irish
Them
Sentence
Use
Fullness
Many
Speech
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
Great
Getting Older
Country
Older
More
Great Place
Dublin
Up
Ireland
Getting
Place
Loving
Realized
Really
Growing
Growing Up
When I started wrestling, I started only to get in shape. I found out that a wrestling school had opened in Ireland, and I wanted to go because I was hanging out with the wrong crowd and I wanted to turn my life around.
Becky Lynch
Life
School
My Life
Out
Only
Wrestling
Crowd
Shape
Had
Wrong
Opened
Because
Around
Go
Ireland
Get
Hanging
Wanted
Turn
Found
Started
There were no wrestling schools in Ireland. It was completely unheard of.
Becky Lynch
Wrestling
Schools
Were
Ireland
Unheard
One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!
Bernadette Devlin
Hate
People
Christ
Other
About
Name
Most
Said
Ireland
American
Interesting
Interesting Thing
Holy
Each
Thing
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Men, once enemies, are now jointly governing in Northern Ireland. And although there have been several hitches, by and large it's working well.
Betty Williams
Enemies
Men
Once
Several
Well
Although
Governing
Been
Ireland
Northern
Northern Ireland
Working
Large
Now
I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.
Bill Bryson
Alone
Achievement
Water
Before
Extraordinary
Flying
Bay
Exactly
Atlantic
Charles
Paris
Never
Open
Had
He
Over
How
Ireland
Quite
Straight
Realized
Then
Planned
Flew
Flown
I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.
Bono
Home
Year
Live
Missing
Because
Go
Lot
Ireland
Celebrity
Might
Radar
Whole
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.
Brendan Gleeson
You
Culture
Problem
Finding
Inspiration
Never
Had
Know
Always
Tap
Ireland
Any
Just
Richness
I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages.
Brian Cox
Related
Nine
High
Kings
Directly
Fact
Hostages
Ireland
In Fact
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
Brian Eno
Conflict
People
South Africa
Energy
Out
Countries
Overflowing
Coming
Were
South
Ireland
Africa
Republic
Czech
Czech Republic
Lived
I didn't start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland.
Caitriona Balfe
Summers
Spent
Beaches
Abroad
Until
Ireland
Many
Traveling
Start
In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.
Caroline Corr
You
Like
Know
Rock
Been
Ireland
Irish
Which
Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.
Charles Stewart Parnell
Nation
Fragment
Geographical
Ireland
Should
England
Why
Treated
My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and all that music came over from Scotland and Ireland and England in to the Appalachian Mountains and Ozark Mountains, where I was raised.
Charlie Haden
Music
Family
Me
Hillbilly
Mountains
Musical
Background
Part
Over
Because
Came
Ireland
Very
Scotland
Where
Influenced
Appalachian
England
Dad
Deeply
Raised
Northern Ireland, England, Scotland - when we play each other, you don't want to lose to a neighbouring country.
Chris Coleman
You
Country
Lose
Other
Ireland
Scotland
Northern
Northern Ireland
Want
England
Each
Play
When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.
Chuck D
History
You
Travel
World
Understanding
Come
Without
Ireland
Very
Going
Listen
Sensitive
Watch
It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.
Ciaran Hinds
Generation
Made
Tough
Resources
Ireland
Irish
Get
Anymore
Movie
Movies
Whole
Filmmakers
I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.
Ciaran Hinds
Me
Stupid
Never
Like
Reached
Comic
Comics
Up
Ireland
North
Person
Get
Used
Growing
Growing Up
Things
We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.
Ciaran Hinds
Politics
Seen
Dirty
Lot
Ireland
That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.
Clare Short
Justice
Anger
Peace
Political
Lesson
Settlement
Security
Feeds
Towards
Well
Within
Surely
Got
Ireland
Thank
Northern
Northern Ireland
Heavens
Mean
Using
Last
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