Ashamed Quote by Douglas Hyde

To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're…

— Malachy McCourt

Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures…

— Sean Brady

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 have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.

— Katharine Tynan

The Irish are a very fair people, they never speak well of one another.

— Anonymous

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

— Samuel Johnson

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

— Dervla Murphy

The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

— Margaret Mitchell

The English treatment of the Irish was appalling. It was absolutely appalling.

— Perdita Weeks

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot,…

— Iris Murdoch

“This may come as a surprise to generations of Irish pupils, but the Irish language wasn't invented just to infuriate people forced to learn…

— Darach Ó Séaghdha

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

— Roddy Doyle