I grew up an Irish Catholic - which I now have mixed…

I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.

— Brigid Brannagh

I grew up Irish Catholic.

— Nicola Coughlan

When we went to mass that first Sunday after moving to a new place, that was where we felt at home and were able…

— Philip Rivers

Our Dad and Mum sent us to all-girl Catholic schools and the boys went to all-boy Catholic schools. Our parents were what you called…

— Cedella Marley

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

— William Devane

I was a huge fan of J. Courtney Sullivan's novel 'Maine,' and like that novel, 'Saint' is a family saga set in Boston. Irish…

— Elin Hilderbrand

Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

— Frank McCourt

“In the era of security clearances, to be an Irish Catholic became prima facie evidence of loyalty. Harvard men were to be checked; Fordham…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell…

— Geraldine Brooks

“Actual class struggles apart, one of the aesthetic ways you could prove that there was a class system in America was by cogitating on…

— Christopher Hitchens

“As of 1641, the indigenous Irish Catholics owned an estimated three-fifths of the land of Ireland but, just 24 years later,”

— Thomas Sowell

I come from Chicago and am a child of Irish Catholic parents who were able to wield guilt like a Ginsu knife.

— Brendan Hunt

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

— Robert Vaughn

“It was like the violence of the world he’d grown up in had embedded itself in him, taken root, and could never be fully…

— S.E. Jakes

“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that…

— Mark Twain