Ireland
- John Byrne – Le Havre AC 1988-90
- Tony Cascarino – Marseille, AS Nancy – 1996–97, 1997 and 1998-00
- Owen Mac Cahill – CA Paris – 1932–34
- Tom Davis – FC Metz – 1935
- Noel King – Valenciennes FC – 1982–85
- Mick McCarthy – Lyon – 1989–90
- Jacko McDonagh – Nîmes Olympique – 1985–87
- Frank Stapleton – Le Havre AC – 1988–89
- Bernard Williams – Sochaux – 1932–39 and 1945–46
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Famous quotes containing the word ireland:
“The tragedy of Northern Ireland is that it is now a society in which the dead console the living.”
—Jack Holland (b. 1947)
“They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That’s not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It’s just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them.”
—Dodie Smith, and Lewis Allen. Roderick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland)
“Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ...”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)