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
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
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
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
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
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
The Irish question is this: Do the Irish know the answer to everything? ... And the answer to that is that we… — Olivia Robertson Copy Share Image
I like that kind of weather. Constant drizzle. At the Olympic trials in 2012, my mom was, like, 'It's pouring rain out… — Mary Cain Copy Share Image
American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience.… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
I like the idea that something happens to everybody who comes to L.A. - whether they are Mexican, Irish, black, or hillbillies.… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Sinn Fein is an Irish Republican party. We stood in the Assembly election to deliver a prosperous economy and jobs, to protect… — Martin McGuinness 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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars — James Connolly 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Supporting Celtic, waving a tricolour because your parents are Irish - that's a valid culture. — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
