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
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 think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood. — Genevieve O'Reilly Copy Share Image
It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with… — William Allingham 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
I don't think Ireland has really embraced me, but it is not really for me to say. Obviously, people shouldn't embrace me… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
“The upshot of it has been that the spirit of the Past is now widely regarded amongst us as a purely immaterial… — Seán Ó Faoláin Copy Share Image
I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from… — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
I was at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, one of the best pediatric institutes in the world, and they often had famous… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I'm an American - you know, you grow. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go. — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ... — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago. — Lara Flynn Boyle Copy Share Image
“St Patrick was a Roman Briton of good family dwelling probably in the Severn valley.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
A lot of the time in Ireland we put people into boxes and that's it. — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
Us Irish are kind of like that: we're hard grafters. We like to prove everybody wrong. — Sheamus Copy Share Image
I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore. — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
