Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, for example, everybody on our street was Irish. And all the girls did Irish step dancing. It… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Most actors here go to the West Coast; I ended up going to Ireland. My buddies who left drama school, they had… — Brian F. O'Byrne Copy Share Image
“In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
It's a dimissive term to say the Irish team are plucky because it rings back to the old days when we went… — Eddie O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I was a lonely child. My brother Tony and I were never very close, neither as children nor as adults, but I… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
“As she glanced down at the great distance to the ground below, she whispered in his ear, "You have obviously taken the… — Leigh Ann Edwards Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain the je ne sais quoi of the land of Ireland, and Dublin, and County Meath. Y'know, it's like… — CMAT Copy Share Image
This first-generation narrative keeps happening over and over and over again, whether it was Irish or Jewish or our community, South Asians,… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
My dad had these great Benny Goodman albums that I was obsessed with, and Louis Prima's another guy I loved, and Peter… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
They just love the Irish accent in the States. But I just talk really fast because I'm from Cork. It's my speed… — Sarah Greene Copy Share Image
Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I… — John McCormack Copy Share Image
I think there is a very strong sense of Irish identity, and I think partly that's to do with the fact that… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
How do you spell the name of the Irish prime minister? It sounds like 'teeshuck', but we spell it 'taoiseach.' We respect… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years… — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
'The Irish Duke' is a sequel to 'The Decadent Duke' about Lady Georgina Gordon who married the Duke of Bedford. 'The Irish… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
“Capitalism has come, not only to serve Britain's purpose by keeping the people divided, but, by setting worker against worker, it has… — Michael Collins Copy Share Image
“...there was always hunger in Ireland. She was a country that liked to be hurt. The Irish heaped coals of fire upon… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were… — Colm Toibin 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 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
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
“Och, lass. Yer going to have to not do that.” Faolán exhaled. “Creeping up on a man is a dangerous thing, and… — Shannon MacLeod Copy Share Image
“The Irish-Indians, who were of dark complexion, would many times claim to be Black Dutch or Black Irish and deny their rightful… — Rickey Butch Walker Copy Share Image
I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
I was attracted to black music for the same reason that I loved those old Irish ballads. Both were social statements of… — Michael McDonald Copy Share Image
On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I, No harp like… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
I like the idea of people having romantic tendencies towards a place they don't know that well. I think it's great. Why… — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship.… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
Someone who is Irish can have a loyalty to Ireland. The problem is when you raise the subject of dual loyalty, many… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
