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“A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn’t.”

— Kate Atkinson

“Do you ever feel that everything would be okay, if only you had an Irish accent?”

— Graham Parke

I grew up with a very strong Irish accent.

— Dolores O'Riordan

“It is one of their beauties, the Irish, the way they crush and expand the language all at once How they mangle it and…

— Colum McCann

“For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.”

— Jennifer Armstrong

“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.”

— Thomas Adcock

“I don't hate the English and I don't know do I love the Irish. But I love him. I'm sure of that now. And…

— Jamie O'Neill

Inherently in us as Irish people, wherever you are in the world, when you hear an Irish accent, it's like a moth to a…

— Jessie Buckley

“I was beginning to understand how the Irish mentality worked. The more foolish, illogical or surreal one's actions were perceived t be (and mine…

— Tony Hawks

“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.”

— Virginia Henley

“Irish has not so much a common formula as a common character.”

— Lew Bryson