Christ Quote by Bernadette Devlin

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

— Anne Enright

the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the…

— Mercedes McCambridge

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

— Brendan Behan

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this…

— Lydia M. Child

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the…

— John Bright

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

— Fiona Shaw

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic…

— Douglas Hyde

Irish people are still very prickly about Catholic Church. Despite all the scandals and cover-ups that have rocked the church, you can only push…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

— Margaret Mitchell

“The arrival of Christianity in Ireland brought with it the painful disconnection from the earth that still resonates today. Until then, people lived in…

— Mary Reynolds

“These people, these neighbors, both Protestant and Catholic alike, who spat at each other with such hatred that it sometimes erupted into violence, did…

— Anna Lee Huber

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

— Samuel Johnson