They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
“May all who love the Lord, love you and those who don’t love you, may the Lord give them a limp so… — Cedric Kelly Copy Share Image
To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move,… — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke. — Sean O'Casey 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
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
“She had a face which was not so much freckled as one big freckle with occasional areas of skin.” — Neil Gaiman 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
“...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with… — David Willis McCullough Copy Share Image
“Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
There are three states of legality in Irish law. There is all this stuff which comes under That's grand, then it moves… — Dara O Briain 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
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
At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time… — Stephen Rea 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
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 don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel… — Martin McDonagh 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
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 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
There's a lot of Irish in London and have been for years - they're very much a part of the city. — Brian Gleeson Copy Share Image
A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Our common membership of the E.U. provided an important external context to the Irish and U.K. governments working together for peace. It… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them. — Edward Burns Copy Share Image
William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
In Dorchester, there were a lot of immigrants, a lot of working-class Irish people, and the vibes were, like, 'We're real people… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
There's still, dare I say it, a cultural propaganda against the Irish, that we are, as women, 'feisty.' I hate that word. — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn In the… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I bought a flat in Camden when I was 26, which I was extremely lucky to do. I think it's an Irish… — Laura Whitmore Copy Share Image
Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic,… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues. — Fionnula Flanagan Copy Share Image
My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
We do ballet dancing, Irish dancing, Scottish, jazz, tap - whatever country we're in or whatever culture that we'd like to present… — Emma Watkins Copy Share Image
