“Cad é an mhaith dom eagla a bheith orm? Ní shaorfadh eagla duine ón mbás, dar ndóigh.” — Peig Sayers Copy Share Image
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America. — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Language is so important to the Irish, almost regardless of education. — Jessie Buckley Copy Share Image
Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and… — Anne McCaffrey 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
“The best compliment we ever got was that the Pogues were ‘like The Dubliners on-speed.’” Shane MacGowan” — Robert Mamrak 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
I like the Mid Antrim circuit, and if anyone were to ask me to show them a typical Irish road surface, I… — Guy Martin Copy Share Image
The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round.… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them.… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
As our company grew and we began growing our family stateside - with heritages ranging from Liberian and Sierra Leonean to Irish,… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
I don't think Ireland has really embraced me, but it is not really for me to say. Obviously, people shouldn't embrace me… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from… — Michael D. Higgins Copy Share Image
“The upshot of it has been that the spirit of the Past is now widely regarded amongst us as a purely immaterial… — Seán Ó Faoláin Copy Share Image
I was at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, one of the best pediatric institutes in the world, and they often had famous… — Adam Pearson 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
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
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