If your irish or asian of course you would agree with size don't matter. — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish. — Oliver St. John Copy Share Image
I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
“Sure and you've got to keep your own spitis up, for there's no one else will do that for you!” — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
I made my final collection in college in London using Irish handwoven wool. That is how I discovered Ireland first; I just… — John Rocha Copy Share Image
Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a… — Adelaide Kane Copy Share Image
I'm from an Irish family and, even though I grew up in 80s London, I spent a lot of my childhood in… — Roisin Conaty Copy Share Image
With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters,… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
By 2007, an uncompetitive, bloated, over-borrowed and distorted Irish economy had been left at the mercy of subsequent international events without the… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
“The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans. That experience should be part… — Historica Press Copy Share Image
I went into the world confident my tea training would open many doors. And I did particularly well with the Irish and… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous -… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Nkechi never tried to hide her bottom. She was proud of it. Fascinating to me. Irish girls' lives were a constant quest… — marian keyes Copy Share Image
Many of the Victorian and Edwardian activists who campaigned for Irish home rule, for instance, also wanted what they called 'home rule… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most conversational exchanges you get an 'added extra'… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
When I worked at The Independent newspaper, I had colleagues who would laugh and say that whenever they picked up the phone… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
The one joy that has kept me going through life has been the fact that stories unite us. To see you as… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
“The behaviour of the English people I had run into was making it very difficult to nail down a theory that the… — Tony Hawks Copy Share Image
“The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
“Irish grabbed her hand and kept the water directed at the wall. His voice cam across her radio. "Hannah. Wait. What do… — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
“Can one understand the presence of English literature without the absences of Irish literature? Are the presences in the former, at some… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
