Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French. — Winston Marshall Copy Share Image
The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars — James Connolly Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
In the spirit of the Irish people, Osama bin Laden, you can kiss my royal Irish ass! — Mike Moran Copy Share Image
I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything. — Dan Savage 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
I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with… — Michael D. Higgins 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
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
In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I'm sorry, did I say 'scientists'? I meant… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I'm a Londoner, and I feel I can't live anywhere but London, but I feel more connected to Ireland as a country.… — Roisin Conaty Copy Share Image
They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being… — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
Inherently in us as Irish people, wherever you are in the world, when you hear an Irish accent, it's like a moth… — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
“Other “no-word-for” and “can’t-be-translated” myths include the stories that the Irish have no word for “sex” or even “yes” (how, one wonders,… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
The Irish turned in on themselves and bid up their own land prices in the most extraordinary ways... The Irish people stepped… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere.… — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a… — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
If Britain votes to leave the European Union, then that could have huge implications for the entire island of Ireland and, given… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland.… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for… — Martin McGuinness 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 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
“This is what songs do, even dumb pop songs: they remind us that emotions are not an inconvenient and vaguely embarrassing aspect… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising.… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
“Just remember, it's an easy place to be at home in, Ireland. I think the people are very skilled at relating. I… — Pete McCarthy Copy Share Image
On this day, millions of people...throughout the world will gather to commemorate the life of Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. From his… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish. — Oliver St. John Copy Share Image
Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace.. — Wolfe Tone Copy Share Image
“75% of Irish people wish they were 76%. The other 25% wish they were 24%. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
What I love about Irish people is the way we get behind our sportspeople. — Shane Lowry Copy Share Image
“We Irish are the only people in the world who are actually nostalgic about the future.” — Joe Biden Copy Share Image