Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. — Alex Levine Copy Share Image
The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times. — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British. — Brenda Fricker Copy Share Image
If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so… — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
I don't think I related to the Irish Catholic surroundings that was my environment when I was growing up. — Isabela Moner Copy Share Image
“In the secular trinity of Irish-American values, loyalty and humor are father and son. Self-deprecation is the spirit that works in mysterious… — Maureen Dezell Copy Share Image
“Ma English is 10.42% Australian, 14.58% Irish, 16.67% North Irish, 16.67% Scottish, 16.67% Singaporean and 25% US Black Vernacular/Ebonics” — Kimberly Loskov Copy Share Image
I believe there is a sun when it is not shining, I believe there is a God when I cannot see him,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you'd… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
If you grew up Protestant in Ireland, of course, at least in the twentieth century, there was always a contingent that would… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect. Hagen: Somebody like me. Michael: You're Irish, they… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
Ireland is one of the oldest and closest friends of the United States, and the Irish people have been a crucial part… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan… — John Banville Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
I'm proud of both sides, and they are both really well known to be fighting heritages, so I tell everyone all the… — Eddie Alvarez Copy Share Image
After my son died, I went to a psychiatrist. He proved - or I proved - that Sigmund Freud was correct when… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
The Italian tough guys, dey talk real deep like dis down in dere chests... while the Irish speak way high-ah, up here… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
“Declan Kiberd: Irish writers were an early warning system about abuse Artists played a vital role in the State's formation and since… — Declan Kiberd Copy Share Image
The films that I've made with my company Irish DreamTime are close to my heart. 'The Greatest' being one of them, and… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
We used to speak Irish - Gaelic Irish - around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that. — Genevieve O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity. — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
“I've no plans to couple with anyone other than my new bride for the next century or so, and it feels as… — Leigh Ann Edwards Copy Share Image
“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. [speaking about the Irish]” — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I made loads of English and Irish friends at university and all they wanted to do was have a good time. — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good… — Jeanette MacDonald Copy Share Image
Our Family is deeply honoured to see the Irish Government taking this enormous interest in the development of the Kennedy Homestead Visitor… — Jean Kennedy Smith Copy Share Image
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
“I've always found the Irish really attractive-they make wonderful writers and sexy firefighters, and if they didn't like the Red Socks they'd… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do a lot of dialects in my act, including Irish, because I grew up in a neighbourhood that was predominantly Irish… — John Pinette Copy Share Image
I grew up an Irish Catholic - which I now have mixed feelings about - so went to mass. As we got… — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though. — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century — John Bruton Copy Share Image
the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to… — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
“For everyone knew Fiachnae would rise again, it’s what the Irish did, and mac Báetáin was cannier than most.” — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
I've been canyoning, snorkelled a shipwreck, and learnt to Irish dance, all in the same week. — Ashley Roberts Copy Share Image
I go to Spain a lot, in winter, for a blast of sunlight to banish the blues brought on by the Irish… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
The only way to get to that next peak is to be ready for that next valley. Being raised Irish, you know… — Rory O'Malley Copy Share Image