Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother. — Boyle Roche Copy Share Image
“It’s simply this: the Irish kiss, a snog o’ bliss, be blessed luck from any miss.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Lot of Irish in Mexico. The Mexican name, Obregon? It comes from O’Brien.” — John Sandford Copy Share Image
I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
“I thought Ireland was the land of one thousand welcomes.” – Willa. “I’m knocking it down to nine-hundred ninety nine.” – Shane.” — Tessa Bailey Copy Share Image
I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin. — Michael W. Smith 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
English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish football gains so much from being in Europe. Clubs and fans all benefit from European action,… — Karren Brady 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
In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking… — Sonya Walger Copy Share Image
I love the way an Irish man, they can hardly speak proper English, is doing William Shakespeare. So I find that extraordinary… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins… — Patrick Kavanagh 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
My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
“One of my colleagues in the Senate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once made this simple but profound observation about us Irish: “To fail… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“The Irish were regarded as shiftless and drunken; moreover, they were papists, and their fealty to Rome, it was said, meant they… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
There was so much anti-Irish sentiment not just from other kids at the school I went to in Britain, but also the… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“Kenneth Tynan once said that the only people who can do Russian drama, outside of the Russians themselves, are the Irish. I… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“The behaviour of the English people I had run into was making it very difficult to nail down a theory that the… — Tony Hawks Copy Share Image
“The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
The one joy that has kept me going through life has been the fact that stories unite us. To see you as… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
