It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent. — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
All I do in Dublin is relax and live away from the cameras. There are a few coffee shops I love and… — Louis Walsh Copy Share Image
“Be sure to wear green on March seventeen, or else Irish leprechauns pinch your bones clean!” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back. — Kate Walsh Copy Share Image
Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'll also tell you that to no less extent my mom, who was the daughter of Irish immigrants. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish… — Barry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point,… — William V. Shannon Copy Share Image
..though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I've always loved movies, so I tried to get into an acting school. I saw an ad for the Oscar school on… — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I connect to the tradition of Irish storytelling. And I think there is something - I can't put my finger on it… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I'm a very proud Irish person, and also used to be an expat. We are a great nation, sound in fact! — Vogue Williams Copy Share Image
I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well. — Bonnie Tyler Copy Share Image
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill. — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
“Have a good laugh at this, ... Deep down, I never for a second never thought they would find anything.” — Tana French Copy Share Image
Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun. You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on! — Everlast Copy Share Image
I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
“You're a Scott," the Dark said, his lips peeled back in displeasure, as if just saying the word was revolting. "And you're… — Donna Grant Copy Share Image
“Atty’s eyes rested on Darby with all the subtlety of a dog watching his food bowl being filled!” — Tricia Murphy Copy Share Image
“An elderly man called Keith Mislaid his set of false teeth— They’d been laid on a chair, He’d forgot they were there,… — Janice Thompson Copy Share Image
I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano. — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British. — Brenda Fricker Copy Share Image
“If it’s only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on.” —Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn” — Jina Bacarr Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish… — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
It's true of Irish Catholic families. They're big on story telling and big on saving stories from one generation to the next. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to… — Robin Flower Copy Share Image
“I'm proud to be a Mick, even though I'm not Irish My middle name is Mickey, though. Actually, I’m lying.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army.… — John Major Copy Share Image
