Culture Quote by Gavin Friday

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came…

— Marian Keyes

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 feel more strongly with every recurring year that our country has no tradition which does it so much honour and which it should…

— James Joyce

There's still, dare I say it, a cultural propaganda against the Irish, that we are, as women, 'feisty.' I hate that word.

— Dervla Kirwan

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

— Brendan Behan

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never…

— Louis MacNeice

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

— Lara Flynn Boyle

What I love about Irish people is the way we get behind our sportspeople.

— Shane Lowry

Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in a way.…

— Neil Jordan

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going…

— Anne Enright

The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you were a…

— Neil Jordan

Maybe some things that weren't so great were said about the Irish when they came. But Americans've done well by absorbing immigrants and it's…

— Tim Kaine