I used to make fun of people who talked about going home and all that. I hadn't really thought about it at… — Jane O'Meara Sanders Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.” — Thomas Adcock Copy Share Image
“We Irish are the only people in the world who are actually nostalgic about the future.” — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here,… — Rafael dos Anjos Copy Share Image
I've often said it: that it is seen to be a place of energy, of excitement, of enthusiasm. That there's something about… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
“There are more people of Irish descent in Boston and surrounding New England than there are in Ireland.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
I like the idea that something happens to everybody who comes to L.A. - whether they are Mexican, Irish, black, or hillbillies.… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
“They play at gods,' said Piedar Dooly, and spat. 'French and English alike. Gods out of hell would you say, harrowing green… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere.… — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
Sinn Fein is an Irish Republican party. We stood in the Assembly election to deliver a prosperous economy and jobs, to protect… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
If there is a vote in Britain to leave the E.U. there is a democratic imperative to provide Irish citizens with the… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
May the leprechauns be near you, to spread luck along your way. And may all the Irish angels, smile upon you on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a certain kind of guy, a certain kind of humor, that goes with Irish cops and firemen. — Ken Howard Copy Share Image
I'm just an old Irish guy who believes if you have children, you need to be there to raise them. — Eddie Rabbitt Copy Share Image
“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
We used to speak Irish - Gaelic Irish - around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that. — Genevieve O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity. — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
“I've no plans to couple with anyone other than my new bride for the next century or so, and it feels as… — Leigh Ann Edwards Copy Share Image
“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. [speaking about the Irish]” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good… — Jeanette MacDonald Copy Share Image
I made loads of English and Irish friends at university and all they wanted to do was have a good time. — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. — Alex Levine Copy Share Image
When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British. — Brenda Fricker Copy Share Image
If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so… — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times. — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
“In the secular trinity of Irish-American values, loyalty and humor are father and son. Self-deprecation is the spirit that works in mysterious… — Maureen Dezell Copy Share Image
I don't think I related to the Irish Catholic surroundings that was my environment when I was growing up. — Isabela Moner Copy Share Image
“Declan Kiberd: Irish writers were an early warning system about abuse Artists played a vital role in the State's formation and since… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
The Italian tough guys, dey talk real deep like dis down in dere chests... while the Irish speak way high-ah, up here… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
I believe there is a sun when it is not shining, I believe there is a God when I cannot see him,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ma English is 10.42% Australian, 14.58% Irish, 16.67% North Irish, 16.67% Scottish, 16.67% Singaporean and 25% US Black Vernacular/Ebonics” — Kimberly Loskov Copy Share Image