I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“God did not intend for Irish kids to play in the sun, according to my mother.” — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove! — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Making it [St. Patrick's Day] a great day for the Irish, but just an ok day if you're looking for a quiet… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese. — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
“There are only two types of people in Ireland... Those who watch The Late Late Show. And there are those who have… — David Walsh Copy Share Image
Clericalism has rendered some of Ireland's brightest, most privileged and powerful men either unwilling or unable to address the horrors cited in… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Why would she do that?" "Because she's a Yankee - a Maine Yankee, the worst kind. On a given day, they can… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I love flying the flag for Irish designers like Joanne Hynes, Simone Rocha, Natalie B Coleman, Lennon Courtney and Helen Steele. — Laura Whitmore Copy Share Image
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence… — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
I love the way an Irish man, they can hardly speak proper English, is doing William Shakespeare. So I find that extraordinary… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking… — Sonya Walger Copy Share Image
“You were born here. You and your children will have American stories, and they’ll be better than any sorrowful Irish tales. At… — Susan Denning Copy Share Image
In 1975, no State or Church guidelines existed in the Republic of Ireland to assist those responding to an allegation of abuse… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
You've got to use alcohol and not let it use you. I come from a country that's been doomed by alcohol. The… — Gavin Friday 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 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
“The behaviour of the English people I had run into was making it very difficult to nail down a theory that the… — Tony Hawks 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
When I worked at The Independent newspaper, I had colleagues who would laugh and say that whenever they picked up the phone… — Maggie O'Farrell 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
“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
“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