50+ Ireland Quotes: Inspiring Quotes About Ireland

Mystic and mysterious, Ireland has a rich history. Irish seascapes and natural scenery attract many foreign tourists. It has an upbeat and rich atmosphere that attracts tourists to visit Ireland often.

Ireland has magnificent cities that are surrounded by rocky shorelines and picturesque bays. It does not stop at that, Ireland is much more than just the beauty of the places.

People love to visit Ireland for their food culture, their friendly hospitality, and historic monuments; everything is just captivating for the turasóir.

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50+ Quotes About Ireland

“They say the clouds are lower in Ireland…I say Ireland is closer to Heaven.” – Michael Vatis

“Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.” – Charles Haughey

“Ireland. Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm.” – William Ewart Gladstone

“The landscape in Ireland is just – I’ve never been in such a beautiful place with the lakes and ocean and everything.” – Travis Fimmel

“In ancient Ireland, the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world.” – Orna Ross

“Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.” – Elizabeth Bowen

“Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth-century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.” – John McGahern

“Ireland is a good place to start out as a filmmaker. If what you do is good, even at a very small scale, it will get recognized.” – Lenny Abrahamson

“You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.” – Hal Roach

“Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.” – Daniel Day-Lewis

“Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.” – Pope John Paul II

“In Ireland, every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.” – Maeve Binchy

“I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.” – James Nesbitt

“Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.” – Fiona Shaw

“Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.” – Nora Roberts

“When all this started, all our families have lived in Knockglen for as long as anybody could remember. And in Ireland, people have very long memories.” – Minnie Driver Benny

“Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.” – Samuel Beckett

“Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.” – Boyle Roche

“Ireland is a great place to be odd.” – Roisin Murphy

“Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.” – George Bernard Shaw

“I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.” – Lady Gregory

“There is, for whatever reason, an international tendency to be well-disposed towards Ireland – a tendency that elevates us beyond our actual standing on the world stage.” – Ivana Bacik

“I grew up in very rural Ireland. The Internet was kind of a connection to the greater world. It had a lot of significance.” – Patrick Collison

“I Love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It’s just magical and beautiful.” – Eva Green

“As I walked back to the car, I chatted with an Englishman, who confirmed that, indeed, sheep are dropping into the oceans around Ireland at a regular rate.” – Margeret Lynn McLean

“Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn’t matter where you come from but where you want to go.” – Leo Varadkar

“We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas—stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the “story” part of the word “history,” and we love it trimmed out with color and drama, ribbons and bows. Listen to our tunes, observe a Celtic scroll: we always decorate our essence.” – Frank Delaney

“I started with rock n’ roll and…then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see there are blues and there’s country…Then you go back from country into American music…and you end up in Scotland and Ireland eventually.” – Elvis Costello

“In Ireland, I don’t get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty.” – Georgia Salpa

“I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didn’t know what was beyond. But we thought about it – a lot. And that ‘beyond’ became internalized in our psyche.” – Conor McPherson

“Winterfell is atop of this huge mountain in Northern Ireland, and you can see all these weather fronts coming in. Basically, the sky circles the mountain. It’s the most beautiful place.” – Kristian Nairn

“Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England – Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.” – Charles Stewart Parnell

“I actually don’t think Ireland has a summer. I never experienced a summer there. It was just so wet.” – Travis Fimmel

“I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather around me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like – leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.” – Luanne Rice

“I hate wearin’ sunglasses, to be honest with you. You don’t need sunglasses in Ireland.” – Tristan MacManus

“Ireland, once you live there, you’re seduced by it.” – Frank McCourt

“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.” – James Cagney

“I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork, and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we’d stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays – being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings.” – Vinnie Jones

“I like Ireland because it means I’m near France.” – Harry Harrison

“Pubs. The official sunblock of Ireland.” – Unknown

“Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in ‘Old Ireland.’ It has been made all of the kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can’t think of anything else for definite.” – Anne Enright

“Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter’s provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden… the island abounds in milk and honey.” – Venerable Bede

“Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.” – James Joyce

“I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for which I believe I have sacrificed my life.” – Thomas Drummond

“The beauty of Ireland is timeless. It is like something my heart has always known. Somewhere I always wish to return to.” – Unknown

“The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.” – Eddie Murphy

“What I’ve said before, only half in-joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.” – Seamus Heaney

“In Ireland, we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it’s going to rain and when you can’t see the mountains it’s raining.” – David Allen

“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

“Visiting Ireland reminded me of when I first arrived in Vermont. I thought this is home.” – Jane O’Meara Sanders

“Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too.” – Michael D. Higgins

“It’s just very homey in Ireland. It’s very comforting and comfortable. There are lots of fireplaces with fires. It’s just really cozy.” – Amy Adams

“Ah, Ireland… That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. On other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.” – Liam Neeson

“We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.” – Marianne Williamson

“Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions.” – Gustave de Beaumont

“I didn’t start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland.” – Caitriona Balfe