Being irish Quote by Anne Enright

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

— Colin Farrell

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

— Roddy Doyle

I grew up my whole life in Ireland and obviously sound very, very Irish. I feel like it's just one of those things that…

— Saoirse Ronan

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad…

— Theodore Dreiser

What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?

— Billy Conn

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be…

— John McGahern

I think there is a very strong sense of Irish identity, and I think partly that's to do with the fact that we have…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.

— Philip Treacy

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

What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?

— John F. Kennedy

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

— Jodie Foster

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never…

— Louis MacNeice