Northeast Pennsylvania will be written on my heart. But Ireland will be written on my soul. – Joe Biden On his Irish roots, in letter to ancestry.com.
We’ve got this set-up in this incredible place. It’s absolutely gorgeous. Even in the 2km lockdown, we’ve got trees, and woods and ocean. It’s just incredible. It feels like a fairytale. – Matt Damon On staying in Dalkey, Ireland, during Covid-19 pandemic.
Hello Ireland. I would like to address my nation. – Conor McGregor The mixed-martial arts fighter announcing an important message on combating Covid-19.
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
Ireland is a great nation. And we are great people. We have experienced hardhip and struggle before. We have overcome many trials in the past with our determination and our spirit. We will prevail. – Leo Varadkar On Covid-19 pandemic.
When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man’s finding out. – Sara Coleridge(#Country #Blessed #Past)
In Ireland, the tribes are called after the founder, as the Hy Conaill, Hy Fiachra, or sons of Conal, sons of Fiech, through grand, great-grand, and great-great-grandchildren. – Sabine Baring-Gould
