Ireland National Football

Famous quotes containing the words ireland, national and/or football:

    “It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.”
    —V.S. (Victor Sawdon)

    “Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God’s right to come.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
    —Frank Zappa (1940–1993)