Activity Quote by Glen Hansard

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

— Lara Flynn Boyle

When I was growing up, for example, everybody on our street was Irish. And all the girls did Irish step dancing. It was pre-Lord…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

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 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

I grew up during one of Northern Ireland's most complex periods.

— Jonathan Anderson

My parents were active in the anti-war movement in the 1960s, so I grew up with a tradition of civic activism around our dinner…

— Jared Polis

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

— Pierce Brosnan

One of my first memories is marching with my mom. I was in kindergarten with with the Catholic ladies when Martin Luther King Jr.…

— Duff McKagan

I grew up in Ireland, and there were so many things we believed in.

— Caitriona Balfe

From day one working in TV, I have been very conscious of the way the Irish are represented, In every show I've been involved…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

— William Devane

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

— Seamus Heaney