Building Quote by Anthony Quinn

“a new wave of immigrants would replace the Irish, fleeing a different but no less abject country, the process starting anew. The engine huffed…

— Colson Whitehead

I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and…

— Werner Herzog

Maybe some things that weren't so great were said about the Irish when they came. But Americans've done well by absorbing immigrants and it's…

— Tim Kaine

With the reorganization of 1898 finished, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad entered a new period in its history.

— John Moody

The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

— Jack Charlton

We're talking about America - a country that's been built on the back of cheap labor. That's addicted to cheap labor. Talk to the…

— Jose Antonio Vargas

“If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?”

— Henry David Thoreau

Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of…

— Thomas Cahill

“America may have been providentially chosen, but that was far from true for a good number of its inhabitants. The same racist ideology that…

— Kathryn Miles

The agricultural fields throughout the Southwest, those jobs needed to be filled, and who were the ones to do it? It was the Mexicans.

— Richard Cabral

It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved…

— Joseph O'Neill

Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?

— Elizabeth Bowen