GSM Coverage - GSM mobile phone coverage maps of Ireland.
Irelands National Mapping Agency - Information on urban, rural and tourist and leisure mapping at a variety of scales in digital form as well as on paper.
Antique Maps - Antique maps of Ireland, from the late sixteenth to the nineteeth century.
Map Ireland - Interactive maps of Ireland, with urban and rurul travel routes.
AA Ireland - Comprehensive route planner, with information and directions for the whole of Ireland.
Ireland's History in Maps - Irish history illustrated with maps. Maps of the country going back to the Ice Age.
Celtic Holy Ground - Photograph of sites in Ireland where the veil between this world and the other world is thin.
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Maps and Views The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Maps and Views
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Maps and Views A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Maps and Views
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Maps and Views Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Maps and Views
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Maps and Views I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Maps and Views
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Maps and Views Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Maps and Views
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Maps and Views I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Maps and Views
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Maps and Views A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Maps and Views
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Maps and Views Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Maps and Views
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Maps and Views In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Maps and Views I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Maps and Views
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Maps and Views
