Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Supporting Celtic, waving a tricolour because your parents are Irish - that's a valid culture. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
There was that sense that as soon as a Northern Irish person opens their mouth, you go, 'Ah, terrorist,' so I refused… — Richard Dormer Copy Share Image
Obviously I never played the Walker Cup because winning the Irish Open at Baltray in 2009 changed everything and I jumped over… — Shane Lowry Copy Share Image
Ireland kind of reminds me of Jamaicans - there are a lot of Irish people in Jamaica. It's the blend of their… — Shaggy Copy Share Image
Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I come from Chicago and am a child of Irish Catholic parents who were able to wield guilt like a Ginsu knife. — Brendan Hunt 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
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
It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the… — Pope Adrian IV Copy Share Image
Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday I'll end… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Have you ever heard of Irish, Poles, Germans, Italians and Jews being integrated? They go anywhere and just enjoy their rights. Why… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
“Do you have a distaste for the Irish?" Jack asked, staring steadily into her eyes. "Oh, no," she said dazedly. "I was… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
There is that much to be done that no select or small portion of people can do; only the greater mass of… — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
“Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?’ ‘If you mean am I… — Jamie O'Neill 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
Hats are the epitome of Englishness, and a royal wedding is the penultimate moment for a hat designer. I'm Irish, but I… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Jimmy's Hall' is set in Ireland in the '30s and everything that went under the camera we had to generate. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The last thing we want to see, given the success of the peace process, is the return of installations along the Irish… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
A man once asked to shake hands with me, the "greatest Englishman who ever lived." I replied, "F**k off, I'm Irish." — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
My mom's family was 100 percent Irish, in the American way of being Irish, and then my dad was half Irish. — Brendan Hunt Copy Share Image
The Irish people were willing to take me at face value, to give me the benefit of the doubt because I was… — Jean Kennedy Smith Copy Share Image
The Irish crowd and the humour, they really get it. Them riffing with 'The Room' makes the film watchable for me. — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk -… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“As of 1641, the indigenous Irish Catholics owned an estimated three-fifths of the land of Ireland but, just 24 years later,” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Irish fanbase is like the No. 1 combat sports fanbase because they travel across the world to come and see Conor… — Mike Perry Copy Share Image
For each petal on the shamrock this brings a wish your way. Good health, good luck, and happiness for today and every… — Irish Blessings Copy Share Image
Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French. — Cyril Cusack Copy Share Image
It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
“Well, they may not be civilized, but they are certainly confident--and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
I've got a good connection here in England, my kids were born here, they're Northern Irish but born in England. — Stuart Dallas Copy Share Image
“Horse-Protestant be damned,” Maurice chuckled, “I am as Irish as the rest of you, but I don’t get to blame someone whenever… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
“Kate giggled. “Excellent choice.” “I always make excellent choices.” “I don’t know about that.” “Of course I do. I picked ye, didn’t… — Whitney K-E Copy Share Image
