Famous QUOTES from Ireland’s county WATERFORD

“Viking bones beneath the cobblestones, a tower watching like a tired sentinel, and me, scribbling plays in cafés as the rain taps the windows like applause.” — “A Waterford Song” by Martina Collender
It is impossible to speak of the city of Waterford, on the broadbreasted Suir, without making some mention of Waterford glass, an industry once dead but latterly revived with conspicuous success – Bryan MacMahon 1909-1998), Here’s Ireland (1971).
“A delightful excursion from Waterford in a jaunting car, through fertile farms and velvety meadows, to the town of Passage, whence a boatman will take you across the river to Ballyhack, which is a group of stone buildings, fish-packing houses, and tenements of the fishermen, with a tall, picturesque old tower rising from their midst by the roadside. ” – William Eleroy Curtis, One Irish Summer
The quay is the finest in Ireland. It is 120 feet wide, extends for three quarters of a mile along the river, and is well built of stone. Bordering this, on the land side, are stores of various kinds. It looks like an old commercial place, and the general dingy look of everything suggests great dampness of atmosphere. There are not many buildings of importance. Few of the streets are wide, but most of them are narrow and crooked, and lanes and alleys abound.” – Lee L. Powers, The Cathedral Towns and Intervening Places of England
“Walking by the Tay river, / in the cool of the evening. / Tell me what it’s like there. / We can taste the scent of water.” — Mark Roper
Tranoroa’s main street consisted only of two donkey-carts – the first donkeys seen in Madagascar – pulling tar-barrels of water. (Just as they did in Lismore during my childhood – Dervla Murphy (1931-2022).
On the western shore of Waterford Harbour, two miles south of Passage East (the views from the hills beside this village are superb), the odd place-name Geneva recalls to memory the abortive idealistic attempt of 1782 to found here an intellectual city based on the silversmiths, goldsmiths, watchmakers and scholars from Geneva in Switzerland. – Bryan MacMahon 1909-1998), Here’s Ireland (1971).
“In Waterford, where rivers gleam, / And ancient walls recall a dream, / The ocean hums a timeless song, / Where heart and history belong.” —”Ode to Waterford.”
“Waterford, my crystal city fair / Waterford, there’s no place to compare / Near or far, no matter where I roam / My heart is always with you/ Waterford my home.” —”Ode to Waterford.”
While dressing next morning I heard a nostalgic clip-clop of hoofs and creaking of carts, sounds more common than car engines in the Lismore of my childhood. – Dervla Murphy (1931-2022).
The Kupa hereabouts almost replicates my favourite stretch of the Blackwater River near my home town, Lismore. On our side small fields sloped slightly up to the base of Pokupsko’s hill, on the far side a long, densely wooded ridge rose steeply from the water’s edge. – Dervla Murphy (1931-2022).
“Witness the fantastic frolics of the Marquis of Waterford—public property in those years. He had inherited the eccentricities of the whole Delaval race, and not content with tickling his peers in England, carried his whims and pranks into Scotland and Ireland and across the Channel.” – Sarah Tytler, reference is to the mad Marquis, Marcus Beresford.
Dunmore East is the Harbour of Silver Darlings. As the seasonal herring shoals approach the south-east coast of Ireland the activity at its little pier sometimes boils over into quarrels that have to do with the purchasing and marketing of herring. Continental buyers are there a-plenty and the word ‘cran’ is common coinage. – Bryan MacMahon 1909-1998), Here’s Ireland (1971).
“Nothing can be certainly more magnificent than this drive. Parks and rocks covered with the grandest foliage; rich handsome seats of gentlemen in the midst of fair lawns, and beautiful bright plantations and shrubberies; and at the end, the graceful spire of Lismore church, the prettiest I have seen in, or, I think, out of Ireland.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
Between the counttes of Wexford and Waterford, the sister rivers, Barrow, Nore, and Suir, now conjoined, enter the sea in estuarine pride. Not far from the point of confluence, on the Wexford side, lies the sea-coast village of Bannow where, in 1169, the Normans first landed in Ireland. – Bryan MacMahon 1909-1998), Here’s Ireland (1971).
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India. I’ve never forgotten the exact spot on a hill near my home at Lismore, County Waterford, where the decision was made. – Dervla Murphy (1931-2022).
In the intervals between mapping I took myself off to remote areas in the mountains around Lismore and practised firing and reloading my ·25, the purchase of which had recently been achieved with the full and rather awe-struck co-operation of the local police. – Dervla Murphy (1931-2022)
With particular affection I. recall dallying on the coast road from Tramore to Dungarvan at a wee place called Clonea, a minor resort favoured by the few. Dungarvan town, the story tells was saved from Cromwellian bombardment by a roguish woman emerging from its gates, tongue-in-cheek, to drink the health of the Lord Protector himself – Bryan MacMahon 1909-1998), Here’s Ireland (1971).
“And the darling girl I met that day is now my darling wife. / Sure we have a lovely daughter, and the son to push my yoke, / And all because I raised my hat to the Old Dungarvan Oak.” — Paddy Reilly “Waterford, The Old Dungarvan Oak

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Ireland’s county Waterford is steeped in Viking and medieval history, with Waterford City’s Reginald’s Tower and Viking Triangle showcasing ancient artefacts. The Copper Coast, a UNESCO Geopark, offers dramatic coastal walks, while the Lismore Castle gardens provide serene beauty. Other attractions include the beaches of Tramore and historic Dunmore East. Waterford is Ireland’s 21st largest county by size (1,838 square km) and 20th largest by population (127,363). Population peaked at 196,187 in 1841 and reached its lowest point, 71,439 in 1961. In terms of hospitality, Waterford is Ireland’s ninth most visited tourist county with around 225,000 international visitors per year.

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