“I'm proud to be a Mick, even though I'm not Irish My middle name is Mickey, though. Actually, I’m lying.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to… — Robin Flower Copy Share Image
I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
It's true of Irish Catholic families. They're big on story telling and big on saving stories from one generation to the next. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Be sure to wear green on March seventeen, or else Irish leprechauns pinch your bones clean!” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back. — Kate Walsh Copy Share Image
All I do in Dublin is relax and live away from the cameras. There are a few coffee shops I love and… — Louis Walsh Copy Share Image
The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent. — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
My dad's Welsh and my mum's Irish, and they're always rowing. If I went in and said that I'd been working with… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
“Yes, it is a rich language, Lieutenant, full of the mythologies of fantasy and hope and self-deception - a syntax opulent with… — Brian Friel Copy Share Image
I've got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that you'd have… — Rachel Miner Copy Share Image
We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as… — Sir John Davies Copy Share Image
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
All of my dad's family, his brothers and sisters, my nana and grandad and all of the cousins emigrated to Australia within… — Genevieve O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In Ehrenfeld, we were all jammed together. All the fathers were foreign-born - Welsh, Irish, Polish, Sicilian. We were so jammed together,… — Charles Bronson Copy Share Image
Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'll also tell you that to no less extent my mom, who was the daughter of Irish immigrants. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
I'm a very proud Irish person, and also used to be an expat. We are a great nation, sound in fact! — Vogue Williams Copy Share Image
I want to have a voice. I want to be able to vote for John Kerry. I found a whole new life… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
I connect to the tradition of Irish storytelling. And I think there is something - I can't put my finger on it… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Author? Author? Did you write these legs?' 'Yes." 'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
“So go love someone that wants to love you back. Whoever that lad is will be one lucky person.” — Alisa Mullen Copy Share Image
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
We learn to laugh from the cultures that suffered most - from the Russians, Poles, and Irish - not from Sweden or… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
“For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.” — Jennifer Armstrong Copy Share Image
I grew up with this idea that songwriters had a great job. My family was Irish Catholic, so if you became a… — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
I always think of Ireland as a place for complex ideas and prose. I like Irishness. I like Irish culture and Irish… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, having lived in London in the '80s when there was an Irish republican… — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army.… — John Major Copy Share Image
I'm a whole lot more than just Spanish or Irish or whatever, but definitely, it's given me help. It's given me a… — Eddie Alvarez Copy Share Image
I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The landscape in Ireland is just - I've never been in such a beautiful place with the lakes and ocean and everything. — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
