Immigration Quote by Colson Whitehead

“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.”

— Matthew Quick

“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people”

— Jan Morris

“The Irish move to the sound of the guns like salmon to the sea”

— Rudyard Kipling

“There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.”

— Rhian J. Martin

“The Irish are a merry race and surely they are mad, for all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad.” The”

— Michael Capuzzo

“...there was always hunger in Ireland. She was a country that liked to be hurt. The Irish heaped coals of fire upon their own…

— Colum McCann

“You were born here. You and your children will have American stories, and they’ll be better than any sorrowful Irish tales. At the end,…

— Susan Denning

“So they say things like, “Go back to your country,” as if their Irish ancestors never walked through Ellis Island.”

— Dominique Christina Ashaheed

“The behaviour of the English people I had run into was making it very difficult to nail down a theory that the reason my…

— Tony Hawks

“True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising. So few…

— Edward Rutherfurd

“The Irish Economy Since 1922.”

— Diarmaid Ferriter

“It is one of their beauties, the Irish, the way they crush and expand the language all at once How they mangle it and…

— Colum McCann