Because it was my first time acting in English, everyone on set was difficult to understand. It was a mix of Scottish,… — Sibel Kekilli Copy Share Image
These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past… — Bonar Law Copy Share Image
London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
The so-called Boer War advertised British vulnerabilities, and these were confirmed by the Irish rising of 1916 and the subsequent creation of… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I'm part German and part Irish. In fact, there's even a town in Germany that was named after my family, Limbach or… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There are writers, and I know some of them, who are very disciplined. Who write, like, four pages a day, every day.… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics …… — John Pintard Copy Share Image
On my mum Marie's side, my nana was from the Republic of Ireland, and my granddad was from the north. Lots of… — Paul Scholes Copy Share Image
As our company grew and we began growing our family stateside - with heritages ranging from Liberian and Sierra Leonean to Irish,… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them.… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round.… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I don't think Ireland has really embraced me, but it is not really for me to say. Obviously, people shouldn't embrace me… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
I was at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, one of the best pediatric institutes in the world, and they often had famous… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
“The upshot of it has been that the spirit of the Past is now widely regarded amongst us as a purely immaterial… — Seán Ó Faoláin Copy Share Image
I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from… — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish… — Barry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point,… — William V. Shannon Copy Share Image
..though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I've always loved movies, so I tried to get into an acting school. I saw an ad for the Oscar school on… — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
All of my dad's family, his brothers and sisters, my nana and grandad and all of the cousins emigrated to Australia within… — Genevieve O'Reilly Copy Share Image
In Ehrenfeld, we were all jammed together. All the fathers were foreign-born - Welsh, Irish, Polish, Sicilian. We were so jammed together,… — Charles Bronson Copy Share Image
“Yes, it is a rich language, Lieutenant, full of the mythologies of fantasy and hope and self-deception - a syntax opulent with… — Brian Friel Copy Share Image
I've got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that you'd have… — Rachel Miner Copy Share Image
My dad's Welsh and my mum's Irish, and they're always rowing. If I went in and said that I'd been working with… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being… — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as… — Sir John Davies Copy Share Image
When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Inherently in us as Irish people, wherever you are in the world, when you hear an Irish accent, it's like a moth… — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
