Death Quote by Dervla Murphy

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history…

— James D'arcy

Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about…

— Jane Jacobs

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

— Frank McCourt

The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain,…

— Peggy Noonan

Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace..

— Wolfe Tone

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

— Katharine Tynan

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything…

— Douglas Hyde

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

— Brendan Behan

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad…

— Theodore Dreiser

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

— Douglas Hyde

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

— Alex Haley

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

— Samuel Johnson