Dublin Quotes

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.

My family, although they're very large on both my parents' sides, they don't know much about their family tree. Occasionally, they try to dig, but they can't get very far, and it's baffling. In Dublin, it seems that so many public records were wiped out; it's proven to be very difficult, so I know very little.

I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland.

I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far.

Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.

As a kid growing up in the back streets of Dublin I used to pretend I was playing in the World Cup with my mates out on the streets, and now I will be doing it for real.

I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.