Experience Quote by Frank McCourt

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish…

— William Howard Taft

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

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

— William Butler Yeats

Northern Irish people tend to have this sharp, dark sense of humour.

— Aisling Bea

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

— Fiona Shaw

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

— Seamus Heaney

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

I connect to the tradition of Irish storytelling. And I think there is something - I can't put my finger on it - something…

— Michael Connelly

With Irish drama, things are told with humor.

— Rory O'Malley

“I was beginning to understand how the Irish mentality worked. The more foolish, illogical or surreal one's actions were perceived t be (and mine…

— Tony Hawks

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to…

— Nick Clooney

There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where we'd all…

— Frank McCourt