Irish Quotes

515 Irish quotes by 364 unique authors

I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my… — John McCormack
The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out. — Jack Charlton
Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed… — John Edward Redmond
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish. — Oliver St. John
It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian… — John Bright
The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination… — James Larkin
It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say. — Henry Fonda
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet… — Thomas Mellon
But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to… — Gerry Adams
In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power… — Gerry Adams
We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the… — Jack Lynch
Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only… — Josiah Strong
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected… — Goldwin Smith
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. — Maria Edgeworth
The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be… — Thomas Francis Meagher
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view… — Fiona Shaw
I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories,… — Colm Meaney
A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever. — William Nicholson
My soul is still Irish. — Ciaran Hinds
My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when… — Ciaran Hinds
My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at… — Ellen Pompeo
My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish. — Brian McDermott
I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I… — John Banville
I can envision a small cottage somewhere, with a lot of writing paper, and a dog, and a fireplace and maybe enough money to give… — Unknown Author
The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch. — Proverb

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