Irish Quotes

515 Irish quotes by 364 unique authors

I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and… — Garry Hynes
When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I went… — Rosemary Mahoney
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though they… — Rosemary Mahoney
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there… — Garry Hynes
You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something… — Tracy Morgan
I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern… — Chris Abani
I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. — Robin Williams
Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced. — Robert Gottlieb
My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish. — Shane Filan
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing… — Seamus Heaney
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. — Seamus Heaney
Growing up with Bronx Irish parents during an era of protests against the status quo, I was especially committed to doing the opposite of what… — Greg Fitzsimmons
I gotta lot of Black Irish in me. — Kevin Dillon
I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70. — Diane Ladd
There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined in… — Michael Ignatieff
When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that… — Pierce Brosnan
Irish and Italian are my two favourite people. — Paul Haggis
One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in… — Rory Bremner
I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world. — P L Travers
Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they recognise that many… — Tom Paulin
Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently… — Tom Paulin
The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish… — James Nesbitt
My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany. — Unknown Author
Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written about the Irish,… — James Gray
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families. — Richard Flanagan

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