Europe Quote by Ardal O'Hanlon

My Irish identity is important as it's a part of who I am.

— Dervla Kirwan

I think on my dad's side, like a lot of Canadians, there was a sign of Irish in me somewhere way back, like a…

— Noah Reid

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 suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

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'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

— Gabriel Byrne

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

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going…

— Anne Enright

The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I…

— Rory McIlroy

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

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

— Fiona Shaw

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