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 Copy Share Image
I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my… — Morgan Llywelyn Copy Share Image
When I looked at my mother, I always saw a bit of Ireland. And I suppose when I look to Ireland, I… — Jean Kennedy Smith Copy Share Image
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70. — Diane Ladd Copy Share Image
I really do think that in life, people just want to talk about their problems. In particular, Irish people and English people… — CMAT Copy Share Image
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of… — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
Irish politicians are very accessible to the public, just the messenger boys for the local constituency. — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
“It’s almost like that’s the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian… Or becoming a… — Josh Alan Friedman Copy Share Image
The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones.… — Tracey Ullman Copy Share Image
In boxing we're allowed to come togethwe. Protestants and Catholics, the north and south, everyone. I'm in an Irish vest, even on… — Carl Frampton Copy Share Image
Our language was even taken from us. The Irish Gaelic language was outlawed and the religion was outlawed. Hence the religion later… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Like everyone, I am concerned about the Irish border and the Good Friday Agreement, but as a Kent MP I am also… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
My dad had a dream of living in an Irish castle, even when we were in Argentina, and in 1960 he found… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
It's incredible being a woman. I was, of course, fortunate to have an Irish mother who is an empowered woman. She comes… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
The Spanish and Cuban people have the same kind of wakes the Irish do. They go on for two or three days… — Desi Arnaz Copy Share Image
Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've always been fond of my heritage, particularly my Irish heritage. But I'm also from all over the world. — Eugene Simon Copy Share Image
I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock… — Moira Kelly Copy Share Image
“Overheard at O'Banion's Beer Emporium: "Pardon me, darlin', but I'm writin' a telephone book. C'n I have yer number?” — Henry D. Spalding Copy Share Image
I still identify as Irish. But I'm a Londoner too. It really is a great place to grow up. — Roisin Conaty Copy Share Image
My name is CMAT and I'm literally just a young one from Dunboyne/Dublin, depending who you ask. — CMAT Copy Share Image
I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's… — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true. — Domhnall Gleeson Copy Share Image
For me, no one aspect of the Brexit debate displays so markedly the monomania of many Brexiteers as does the Irish question. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“Irish heroes, for one reason or another, have come off, it must be owned, but poorly before the bar of history.” — Emily Lawless Copy Share Image
I am a proud Englishman, having been born and raised in London. However, I am just as proud of my family's Irish… — Declan Rice Copy Share Image
“Ireland is probably named the “Emerald Isle” because there are lots of precious stones found there, such as sapphires and rubies.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP. — Hozier Copy Share Image
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
