A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner. — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French. — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother was very proud of being Irish and being a Gunnigan in a straightforward way. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
Jimmy's Hall' is set in Ireland in the '30s and everything that went under the camera we had to generate. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?’ ‘If you mean am I… — Jamie O'Neill Copy Share Image
The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars — James Connolly Copy Share Image
Hats are the epitome of Englishness, and a royal wedding is the penultimate moment for a hat designer. I'm Irish, but I… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk -… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I think moving from Ireland to Australia, you couldn't get a more different accent on the palate. The Irish accent is very… — Genevieve O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“The world's full of idiots, divas and assholes, mainly in Ireland. In Ireland, one cannot achieve anything if he is not a… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
Its great to say I'm proud to be Irish, For all those people who wants to know what its like well its… — Logan Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect. Hagen: Somebody like me. Michael: You're Irish, they… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
Ireland is one of the oldest and closest friends of the United States, and the Irish people have been a crucial part… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“A horn honks.I look up, expecting to see the white Audi. But there’s a sleek black four-door with shiny silver rims instead.… — K A Tucker Copy Share Image
“Oh, now my Erin, she'd smile down on me no matter where I walked." Grandpop smiled that little smile again. "But I'd… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland.… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
“If I had to choose one spot to enjoy the small-town charm of traditional Ireland, it would be Dingle and its history-laden… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
“Irish grabbed her hand and kept the water directed at the wall. His voice cam across her radio. "Hannah. Wait. What do… — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
The one joy that has kept me going through life has been the fact that stories unite us. To see you as… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
“The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
