I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with… — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions.… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
I'm Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
The strange thing is I can't play jigs or reels or any of that traditional Irish stuff as well as I ought… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I remember vividly as a 15-year-old, in 1964, seeing Derry play Glentoran in the Irish Cup Final at Windsor Park in Belfast.… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school.… — John Collison Copy Share Image
It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
Irish folk is probably the biggest influence musically that I've ever had. My mother's Irish. And when I was very young, both… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. I'm just myself, I stick by my guns and I treat people the way… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
“Now, Benny was no eejit. He wasn't expecting the Tunisian nationals to be Irish. What he did expect was darkish people with… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York,… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
One of the problems that comes up time and time again seems to be this notion of being 'pure' Irish. If you… — Ian McElhinney Copy Share Image
I knew I had that Cajun heritage, that Acadian heritage; I just feel it. And my gut says Irish on the other… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
“Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant… — Martin Donovan Copy Share Image
The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for… — Garry Hynes 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
All my family look Irish. They act Irish. My sister even has red hair... it's crazy. I'm the one that doesn't seem… — Stella Maxwell 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
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
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
I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for… — Francis Hughes Copy Share Image
I've been a Leeds fan for as long as I can remember. When you are about five or six, you adopt a… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I… — Ellen Pompeo Copy Share Image
You've got to use alcohol and not let it use you. I come from a country that's been doomed by alcohol. The… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
In 1975, no State or Church guidelines existed in the Republic of Ireland to assist those responding to an allegation of abuse… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
“You were born here. You and your children will have American stories, and they’ll be better than any sorrowful Irish tales. At… — Susan Denning Copy Share Image
I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking… — Sonya Walger Copy Share Image
In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I love the way an Irish man, they can hardly speak proper English, is doing William Shakespeare. So I find that extraordinary… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the… — Pope Adrian IV Copy Share Image
Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday I'll end… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
