Ireland
- John Hume*, Peace, 1998
- Séamus Heaney*, Literature, 1995
- Seán MacBride, Peace, 1974
- Samuel Beckett, Literature, 1969
- Ernest Walton, Physics, 1951
- George Bernard Shaw*, Literature, 1925
- William Butler Yeats, Literature, 1923
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Famous quotes containing the word ireland:
“Come, fix upon me that accusing eye.
I thirst for accusation. All that was sung.
All that was said in Ireland is a lie
Breed out of the contagion of the throng,
Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The tragedy of Northern Ireland is that it is now a society in which the dead console the living.”
—Jack Holland (b. 1947)
“Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ...”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)