“Oh, there’s nothing worse than those damned, Pope-kissing, potato-sucking Irish.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I'm a history buff, so I've been reading lots of books on Irish and American history. — Sheamus Copy Share Image
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles. — Peggy Johnson Copy Share Image
To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move,… — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke. — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin. — Michael W. Smith Copy Share Image
My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention.… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“She had a face which was not so much freckled as one big freckle with occasional areas of skin.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish football gains so much from being in Europe. Clubs and fans all benefit from European action,… — Karren Brady Copy Share Image
I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Both the U.K. and the E.U. have made a sincere commitment to the people of Northern Ireland: there will be no hard… — David Lidington Copy Share Image
“Do you have a distaste for the Irish?" Jack asked, staring steadily into her eyes. "Oh, no," she said dazedly. "I was… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
There is that much to be done that no select or small portion of people can do; only the greater mass of… — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
“A ógánaigh... ná bris an ghloine ghlan 'tá eadrainn (ní bhristear gloine gan fuil is pian) óir tá Neamh nó Ifreann thall… — Caitlín Maude Copy Share Image
I was a huge fan of J. Courtney Sullivan's novel 'Maine,' and like that novel, 'Saint' is a family saga set in… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and… — Stuart Townsend Copy Share Image
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Do you ever feel that everything would be okay, if only you had an Irish accent?” — Graham Parke Copy Share Image
The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. — Sidney Littlewood Copy Share Image
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I'm Irish, working for a Spanish brand, owned by a French company. — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation. — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
“...I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it. — Gina McCarthy Copy Share Image
