“And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you want to go way way back, then I'm Scottish. My great great grandfather was Scottish, James Gordon Harriott, and a… — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
“All the same, she wondered if they did know what she thought and felt, if they knew without knowing, in that way… — Benjamin Black Copy Share Image
Ireland's always been good to us. We always get nostalgic when we play there because it was the very first proper show… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a… — Hozier Copy Share Image
“The same hand that can write a beautiful poem, can knock you out with one punch—that's Poetic Justice.” — Irish" Wayne Kelly Copy Share Image
“Seán Óg Ó hAilpín… his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither one of them a hurling stronghold.” — Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh Copy Share Image
My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish. — Brian McDermott Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics …… — John Pintard Copy Share Image
Because it was my first time acting in English, everyone on set was difficult to understand. It was a mix of Scottish,… — Sibel Kekilli Copy Share Image
These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past… — Bonar Law Copy Share Image
The so-called Boer War advertised British vulnerabilities, and these were confirmed by the Irish rising of 1916 and the subsequent creation of… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
May the roof over your heads be as well thatched As those inside are well matched. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As the old saw goes, the Irish songs are full of happy wars and unhappy lovers.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I had the Irish faculty of seeing some gleam of humor in every darkness.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know? — Rebecca Mader Copy Share Image
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
With the Celtic Warrior thing, I wanted to convey a positive sense of Ireland. — Sheamus Copy Share Image
