With the Celtic Warrior thing, I wanted to convey a positive sense of Ireland. — Sheamus Copy Share Image
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know? — Rebecca Mader Copy Share Image
Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn't matter where you come from but where you want… — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again.” — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only… — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie. — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and… — Douglas Hyde Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, having lived in London in the '80s when there was an Irish republican… — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
I like the idea that something happens to everybody who comes to L.A. - whether they are Mexican, Irish, black, or hillbillies.… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Our language was even taken from us. The Irish Gaelic language was outlawed and the religion was outlawed. Hence the religion later… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
My dad had a dream of living in an Irish castle, even when we were in Argentina, and in 1960 he found… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Like everyone, I am concerned about the Irish border and the Good Friday Agreement, but as a Kent MP I am also… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
It's incredible being a woman. I was, of course, fortunate to have an Irish mother who is an empowered woman. She comes… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
“I had the Irish faculty of seeing some gleam of humor in every darkness.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“As the old saw goes, the Irish songs are full of happy wars and unhappy lovers.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation. — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
May the roof over your heads be as well thatched As those inside are well matched. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
