Balls Quote by Denis Leary

I've always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I…

— Billy Connolly

I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

— Aidan Quinn

I'm from outside of Boston, and in Boston, people are so passionate about their Irishness.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

— William Devane

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

I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still…

— Stuart Townsend

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

People know I'm from Ireland or have Irish roots.

— Pat Connaughton

I'm from an Irish family and, even though I grew up in 80s London, I spent a lot of my childhood in southwest Ireland.

— Roisin Conaty

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

— Lara Flynn Boyle

My dad's Irish, so I was visiting Ireland a lot as a kid, so it's not totally foreign to me.

— Katherine Ryan

I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to wake and…

— Mariella Frostrup