I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I'm an American - you know, you grow. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
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
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano. — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
“Atty’s eyes rested on Darby with all the subtlety of a dog watching his food bowl being filled!” — Tricia Murphy Copy Share Image
“An elderly man called Keith Mislaid his set of false teeth— They’d been laid on a chair, He’d forgot they were there,… — Janice Thompson Copy Share Image
I'll also tell you that to no less extent my mom, who was the daughter of Irish immigrants. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
I want to have a voice. I want to be able to vote for John Kerry. I found a whole new life… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
“Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I knew I had that Cajun heritage, that Acadian heritage; I just feel it. And my gut says Irish on the other… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the… — Brian Friel Copy Share Image
I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish,… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
All my family look Irish. They act Irish. My sister even has red hair... it's crazy. I'm the one that doesn't seem… — Stella Maxwell Copy Share Image
My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I… — Ellen Pompeo Copy Share Image
“As the old saw goes, the Irish songs are full of happy wars and unhappy lovers.” — Rob Sheffield 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
“I had the Irish faculty of seeing some gleam of humor in every darkness.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I make a mean Irish soda bread every Christmas and give it out to friends and family. — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.” — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible. — Charles Haughey Copy Share Image
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image