My dad had a dream of living in an Irish castle, even when we were in Argentina, and in 1960 he found… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Our language was even taken from us. The Irish Gaelic language was outlawed and the religion was outlawed. Hence the religion later… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation.… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor.… — Colm Meaney Copy Share Image
I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
Dublin's a great place. It really is. It's a great place. And Ireland, especially, is a great place. I've realized that growing… — Barry Keoghan Copy Share Image
I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of… — John Carney Copy Share Image
I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of… — Sean Quinn Copy Share Image
Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the… — Anthony Quinn Copy Share Image
It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
If you ask me where do I belong, it would be somewhere in the Irish Sea almost - born in Hong Kong,… — John Rocha Copy Share Image
My parents are both from Belfast. I have an Irish passport and a British passport, and I go back every summer and… — Stella Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and I’m still discussing that with the Almighty, it will… — Jina Bacarr Copy Share Image
I think people saw him as someone who did good things for Ireland. If you looked at all the Irish actors in… — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
Paris is cafe culture, Dublin is pub culture, and that's the best place to solve all the world's problems: over a pint!… — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German,… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
“The only decision to focus on is the one you are still able to make,” he said. I nodded. We Irish suffer… — Eugene O'Kelly Copy Share Image
I was educated at a convent in Kent. It was run by Irish and French nuns. I mostly hated it but they… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
After school, instead of going into the restaurant scene, I very consciously took my guitar around everywhere I could, to Irish pubs… — Nick Gehlfuss Copy Share Image
We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed… — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton was actually inducted into the Irish American Hall of Fame yesterday. Hillary said she's very proud of her Irish heritage… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
If you are a Northern Irish actor, maybe subconsciously more than consciously, you do have an instinctive responsibility at some point to… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
The Irish turned in on themselves and bid up their own land prices in the most extraordinary ways... The Irish people stepped… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I'll always be somebody who spends a lot of time in a lot of places; that's just always going to be the… — Robert Sheehan Copy Share Image
As a past attorney general I consider a WTO Brexit to be a disaster for us as, leaving aside the economic damage… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
I really want to go to Ireland. It's really green I hear and very pretty. So I'd really like to go there… — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
If there is a vote in Britain to leave the E.U. there is a democratic imperative to provide Irish citizens with the… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
When you grow up in a border area of Ireland, people are very wary and cagy and keep their head down at… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Our communities have been deeply enhanced by immigration, be it of Irish Catholics across the constituency or of Muslims from Gujarat in… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
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