Country Quote by Frank McCourt

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

— Frank McCourt

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

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

— William Butler Yeats

“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

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

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

— William Allingham

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

— Seamus Heaney

There's this very romantic vision of Ireland, but I grew up in a place where it's not very fun to grow up. This fake…

— CMAT

Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?

— Elizabeth Bowen

Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for…

— Nora Roberts

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening…

— Paul Muldoon

Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.

— Crispin Glover