David Ireland

David Ireland may refer to:

  • David Ireland (artist) (1930–2009), American conceptual and installation artist
  • David Ireland (author) (born 1927), Australian novelist
  • David Ireland (colonel) (1832–1864), Union Army colonel in the American Civil War

Famous quotes containing the words david and/or ireland:

    “We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ...”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)