We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. -Irish proverb” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late. — Robert Vaughn Copy Share Image
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
Dublin is one of my favourite cities. It's an absolutely amazing place. — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
Like the warmth of the sun and the light of the day, may the luck of the Irish shine bright on your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The great thing about the beach they use in 'Home & Away' is that they can't kick you off it, so there… — Vogue Williams Copy Share Image
“It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river… — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
“Seán Óg Ó hAilpín… his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither one of them a hurling stronghold.” — Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh Copy Share Image
It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish. — Brian McDermott Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
I really want to go to Ireland. It's really green I hear and very pretty. So I'd really like to go there… — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
“Those institutions—the so-called “industrial schools,” orphanages and “Magdalene” laundries—were run by certain religious orders in Ireland for the better part of a… — Christina McKenna Copy Share Image
“Chance and Destiny have between them woven two-thirds of all history, and of the history of Ireland wellnigh the whole. The literature… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty;… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I… — Van Morrison 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
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
