Alcoholism Quote by James Cagney

There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest…

— Michael Lewis

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from…

— James Nesbitt

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

— Spencer Matthews

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

— Seamus Heaney

The Irish say your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied,…

— Marianne Moore

I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense,…

— Orestes Brownson

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

— Frank McCourt

Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace..

— Wolfe Tone

I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still…

— Stuart Townsend

People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless…

— Frank McCourt

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

— Anne Enright

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