Ancient Ireland sweeping In again with all its unbaptized beauty: The calm evening, The whitethorn blossoms, The smell from ditches that were… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
May the Irish hills caress you, may her lakes and rivers bless you, may the luck of the Irish enfold you, may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.” — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives. — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.' — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I've got the fighting Irish, and Puerto Ricans are some of the best fighters in the world. I'm proud of who I… — Eddie Alvarez Copy Share Image
I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and… — Stuart Townsend Copy Share Image
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in… — P. L. Travers 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
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
Islamic State practise a brand of Islamic law so strict that apparently Raqqa only has two Irish Pubs. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
“I think "The Boondock Saints" , because the Irish guys win. Plus the cat ends badly. It affirms my worldview and I… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I couldn't fit in the Irish community in New York. I was never one of the boys because they would talk about… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The most shocking fact about Summer Bay is not that it looks so much like Brittas Bay. It is that it seems… — Vogue Williams Copy Share Image
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled,… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'll quit Ireland. I like living here because I like the people here, but you never know what's… — Louis Walsh Copy Share Image
No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Cursing is heavily used in the Irish language. It's not a stretch for me, and I have no qualms about it. It… — Paula Malcomson Copy Share Image
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound… — Aidan Turner Copy Share Image
“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
My mom is Irish. She is a poet and a humanitarian who believed in ensuring that people around her had a better… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry? — John Ford Copy Share Image
“I don't hate the English and I don't know do I love the Irish. But I love him. I'm sure of that… — Jamie O'Neill Copy Share Image
Irish music in the local pubs was my first exposure to musical expression, and I feel like Irish music is very close… — Rory O'Malley Copy Share Image
I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish. — Heather Matarazzo Copy Share Image
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation. — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
But the greatest lovethe love above all loves, Even greater than that of a mother...Is the tender, passionate, undying love, Of one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blue grass was the outgrowth of Irish music. As a matter of fact a lot the tunes, a lot of the melodies… — Keith Getty Copy Share Image
“You are a different kind of Irishman, Goll," was all she said. "Every Irishman is a different kind of Irishman," said Goll.” — Charles Brady Copy Share Image
I believe in the sun when it's not shining, I believe in love even when I feel it not, I believe in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image