Being irish Quote by George Orwell

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

— Fiona Shaw

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

— Sean Connery

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

There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to…

— Bobby Sands

To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble,…

— Fiona Shaw

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

— Bonnie Tyler

One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots…

— Rory Bremner

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

— Douglas Hyde

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be…

— Quentin Crisp

The Irish are just good people, they always have been.

— Spencer Matthews

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

— Samuel Johnson

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

— Winston Churchill