Irish Sky Garden Crater
Best of Skibbereen, Cork, Ireland
In 1992 the Irish Sky Garden opened at the Liss Ard Estate, Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland. The giant earth and stoneworks has a crater at its center. A visitor enters through a doorway in the perimeter of the rim, walks through a passage, climbs stairs to enter, then lies on the central plinth and looks upwards to experience the sky framed by the rim of the crater.
“The most important thing is that inside turns into outside and the other way around, in the sense that relationships between the Irish landscape and sky changes.” - James Turrell
QuotaBillsMy soul is still Irish. - Ciaran Hinds
I am very proud to be Irish. - Philip Treacy
The human face is my landscape. - Joshua Reynolds
I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. - Colin Farrell
I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. - Jack Nicholson
Eve: The first chicken to ruin a man's garden - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess. - Gregory Peck
An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral. - Mary Deasy
I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor. - Harrison Ford
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. - Brendan Behan
You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous. - Bonnie Tyler
I'm walking backwards for Christmas Across the Irish Sea. - Spike Milligan
In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist. - Unknown
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. - Fiona Shaw
I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. - James Nesbitt
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. - Colin Farrell
What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart? - Unknown
Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. - Unknown
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. - Ben Nicholson
Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. - Orson Welles
The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden, and it ends with Revelations. - Oscar Wilde
The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood
I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad. - P.J. O'Rourke
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. - Maeve Binchy
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill. - Harold Nicolson
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde
Irish boomerang: It doesn't come back, it just sings sad songs about how much it wants to. - Unknown
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet. - Oliver Herford
The curse of the Irish is not that they don't know the words to a song - its that they know them all. - Susan Dooley
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris
That's the Irish people all over - they treat a joke as a serious thing, and a serious thing as a joke. - Sean O'Casey
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde
Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste. - Tug McGraw
As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.' - James Nesbitt
May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door. - Irish Blessings
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. - Brendan Behan