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  • Bernadette Devlin Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey 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
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Bono Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Boyle Roche Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Betty Williams 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
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Bernadette Devlin 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
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Brendan Behan So many belonging to me lay buried in Kilbarrack, the healthiest graveyard in Ireland, they said, because it was so near the sea.
    Borstal Boy pt. 3 (1958)
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Boyle Roche The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Bobby Sands The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.
    Bobby Sands
    Irish activist and IRA member (1954 - 1981)
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  • Betty Williams The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it was fury.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Bobby Sands They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
    Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison
    Bobby Sands
    Irish activist and IRA member (1954 - 1981)
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  • Marianne Williamson 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
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • Carice van Houten When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
    Carice van Houten
    Dutch actress, singer and radio presenter (1976 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?''
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Bono Who in Ireland could have too much respect for organized religion? We've seen it tear our country in two. My mother was a Protestant. My father was a Catholic. And I learned that religion is often the enemy of God, actually.
    CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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