My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
Irish people are still very prickly about Catholic Church. Despite all the scandals and cover-ups that have rocked the church, you can… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
“I shall ne'er chase rainbows again, Knowing no pot o' gold awaits at the end. My Irish treasure is not there. For… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Father Ted' would be impossible to remake it in America. The whole situation of being Irish and being a priest in Ireland… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
I kick myself that I don't speak Irish. Ah, man, I'd love to. I am going to learn. — Barry Keoghan Copy Share Image
As our company grew and we began growing our family stateside - with heritages ranging from Liberian and Sierra Leonean to Irish,… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
My blue-grey Irish eyes are from my grandfather, who was a travelling tinker. — David Essex Copy Share Image
My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention.… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever. — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I'm very proud that I'm Irish American, though I don't know exactly where my ancestors came… — Michael Connelly 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
'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
My mom's family was 100 percent Irish, in the American way of being Irish, and then my dad was half Irish. — Brendan Hunt Copy Share Image
Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter.Lullabies, dreams and love ever after. Poems and songs with pipes and drums. A thousand welcomes when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is that much to be done that no select or small portion of people can do; only the greater mass of… — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
“Irish-looking,' Halley said, by which she meant a collection of indistinct features - pale skin, mousy hair, general air of ill-health -… — Paul Murray Copy Share Image
