Dublin was a glorious name in our family and had pleasurable associations of violence …Today I am so at home in Dublin,… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
But the most horrible spot … lies…immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
There's this very romantic vision of Ireland, but I grew up in a place where it's not very fun to grow up.… — CMAT Copy Share Image
One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I really disliked the fact that our Irish culture is what make us and made us and will make us. And when… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were… — Amanda Hale Copy Share Image
Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and… — Janet Campbell Hale Copy Share Image
“You're in Ireland the summer after you left college and you're drinking at a pub near the castle where every day bus… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I call myself an accidental entrepreneur. I was all set to take up a brewing job in Scotland when a chance encounter… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
“Katie shook her head in dismay. “I thought being poor was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.” “No, Katie,”… — Jina Bacarr Copy Share Image
I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords of the Realm… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization… — Thomas Mellon Copy Share Image
If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the… — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
“Treall Tabhair dom casúr nó tua go mbrisfead is go millfead an teach seo, go ndéanfad tairseach den fhardoras 'gus urláir de… — Caitlín Maude Copy Share Image
It is a time when Irish women can link - as they are linking - through networks. They can do this through… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
Being the U.S. champion is a big deal for me. Knowing that my ancestors built this country, it's kind of like, the… — Sheamus Copy Share Image
I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish,… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
What I discovered all over Ireland is that people living simple lives by the sea or in the remote countryside seem a… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The Irish people didn't get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice!… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American... There's never an American-American you can… — Simon Munnery Copy Share Image
I'm such an odd mix of things. My grandfather was Indian: I've got more family living in India than I do in… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say. 'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' And Lady Morgan… — Charles Lever Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics across… — Stephen Bennett Copy Share Image
“Setanta Ó hAilpín…the original Setanta from the old Gaelic stories was ten foot tall, had ten fingers on each hand and ten… — Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh Copy Share Image
I hate that blacks and Hispanics are pitted against each other I really do, call me naive, I grew up in an… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed shooting in Ireland. The people are so lovely. I hope I don't offend anyone in saying this, but the… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish… — Carson Daly Copy Share Image
