Well, maybe way, way back. I'm related to the Scots that came to Ireland to try to tame the Irish. — James Doohan Copy Share Image
I started acting when I was really young. I came to the States and didn't know anyone, and I spoke with a… — Sarah Bolger Copy Share Image
I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother was Cantonese, so I'm a quarter Chinese and half Irish and a quarter Scottish and raised by English parents… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go. — Peter Riegert Copy Share Image
London's been really good to me - England as a whole - but the Scots and the Irish especially are very appreciative… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
I had moments with my father that were exquisite - the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mythological Irish warrior, are… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
..though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish… — Barry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point,… — William V. Shannon Copy Share Image
I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
I've always loved movies, so I tried to get into an acting school. I saw an ad for the Oscar school on… — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
My parents are both from Belfast. I have an Irish passport and a British passport, and I go back every summer and… — Stella Maxwell Copy Share Image
So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he… — Jack Reynor Copy Share Image
They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I felt that the IRA, in the context of Irish history, and Sinn Fein were a legitimate force that had to be… — Peter T. King Copy Share Image
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home. — Shane Filan Copy Share Image
I'm delighted that I was born in Ulster rather than anywhere else in Ireland and I've certainly not lost my identity. — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
They are gorgeous. They have beautiful blue eyes and lovely dark hair - that's the typical Irish. — Victoria Silvstedt Copy Share Image
I'm a Londoner, and I feel I can't live anywhere but London, but I feel more connected to Ireland as a country.… — Roisin Conaty Copy Share Image
“There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of… — Rhian J. Martin Copy Share Image
“This may come as a surprise to generations of Irish pupils, but the Irish language wasn't invented just to infuriate people forced… — Darach Ó Séaghdha Copy Share Image
Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
My mother, Sarah Fitzgerald, is Irish and a portrait photographer, and my English father, Michael Callaby, was an artist. — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“If there were only three Irishmen in the world you'd find two of them in a corner talking about the other.” — Brandan Araoz Maria Copy Share Image
Irish blessings to you and your loved ones. wishing you a very Happy St. Patrick's Feast. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt.” — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn't matter where you come from but where you want… — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
“We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again.” — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only… — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie. — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
