Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
But the greatest lovethe love above all loves, Even greater than that of a mother...Is the tender, passionate, undying love, Of one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
U2 and Sinead O'Connor - I haven't a clue why we're compared to them. Apart from us all being Irish, we've nothing… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
I come from Chicago and am a child of Irish Catholic parents who were able to wield guilt like a Ginsu knife. — Brendan Hunt Copy Share Image
I really do think that in life, people just want to talk about their problems. In particular, Irish people and English people… — CMAT Copy Share Image
“She had a face which was not so much freckled as one big freckle with occasional areas of skin.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The great thing about the beach they use in 'Home & Away' is that they can't kick you off it, so there… — Vogue Williams Copy Share Image
World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives. — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
There is something restless and curious about the Irish. Like everybody else, we want to make money and make our way in… — Ardal O'Hanlon 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
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for… — Garry Hynes 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
I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
We used to speak Irish - Gaelic Irish - around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that. — Genevieve O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In Ehrenfeld, we were all jammed together. All the fathers were foreign-born - Welsh, Irish, Polish, Sicilian. We were so jammed together,… — Charles Bronson Copy Share Image
I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
What I love about Irish people is the way we get behind our sportspeople. — Shane Lowry Copy Share Image
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
