The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“Romantic Ireland's dead and gone It's with O' Leary in the grave (September 1913)” — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I think it's an Irish thing. We don't really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal… — Conor McGregor Copy Share Image
I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
One of the big things for me that's been exciting is seeing the Asian-American community coming out, because I'm Filipino and Swedish… — Isa Briones Copy Share Image
Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction. — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
Ancient Ireland sweeping In again with all its unbaptized beauty: The calm evening, The whitethorn blossoms, The smell from ditches that were… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Many cultures believe that on a certain day - Halloween, the Irish Samhain Eve, Mexico's 'Dia de los Muertos' - the veil… — Michael Dirda 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
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
“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
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
The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing… — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
The secret of my success is my mother, who was from Dublin. All my relations are in Dublin or in the west,… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
“The Irish ‘peasant’ is the child of time. He is its guardian and its slave. He will preserve for centuries dull and… — Séan O'FaoláIn Copy Share Image
“St. Brigid’s Island perched like a jagged accident above the water, all grass and rock, no beach to ease the passage of… — Lisa Carey Copy Share Image
“YOU—THE IRISH GIRL. OVER HERE.” A THIN, SCOWLING MATRON in a white bonnet beckons with a bony finger. She must know I’m… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
I don't think we in Ireland have to follow slavishly what other countries have done. Ireland has its own strengths - in… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
“You turn the lights on and off here and if you can’t sleep and want something to read there are books in… — Shannon MacLeod Copy Share Image
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