I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am. — Dick Strawbridge Copy Share Image
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
I'm always happy to be in Ireland in general, it's one of my favorite places. — Lindsay Ellis Copy Share Image
The Irish are great talkers and incredibly friendly, it's just in the DNA. — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish. — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood. — Genevieve O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“This was like National Lampoon's Vacation, but with death, property destruction, and an Irish accent.” — Abigail Roux Copy Share Image
Ireland's always been good to us. We always get nostalgic when we play there because it was the very first proper show… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
“The same hand that can write a beautiful poem, can knock you out with one punch—that's Poetic Justice.” — Irish" Wayne Kelly Copy Share Image
Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a… — Hozier Copy Share Image
“All the same, she wondered if they did know what she thought and felt, if they knew without knowing, in that way… — Benjamin Black Copy Share Image
If you want to go way way back, then I'm Scottish. My great great grandfather was Scottish, James Gordon Harriott, and a… — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
“And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As a past attorney general I consider a WTO Brexit to be a disaster for us as, leaving aside the economic damage… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
I'll always be somebody who spends a lot of time in a lot of places; that's just always going to be the… — Robert Sheehan Copy Share Image
The Irish turned in on themselves and bid up their own land prices in the most extraordinary ways... The Irish people stepped… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
If you are a Northern Irish actor, maybe subconsciously more than consciously, you do have an instinctive responsibility at some point to… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Our communities have been deeply enhanced by immigration, be it of Irish Catholics across the constituency or of Muslims from Gujarat in… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
When you grow up in a border area of Ireland, people are very wary and cagy and keep their head down at… — Ardal O'Hanlon 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
“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
“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
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
“In the late afternoon, Lily approached Ian as he reclined on the couch sketching. “I’ve got something to ask you,” she said,… — Shannon MacLeod Copy Share Image
“The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Despite being from Ireland, I've always avoided writing about it, for two reasons. For a very small country, Ireland has produced an… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk.… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
