Irish People Quote by James Joyce

“Once he said to me in the height of his imperial propaganda, 'Tell those young men in Ireland that this great thing must go…

— W.B. Yeats

“Well, they may not be civilized, but they are certainly confident--and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.”

— Thomas Cahill

“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.”

— Matthew Quick

“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.”

— Thomas Adcock

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this…

— Lydia M. Child

“Such brutishness was beyond the English capacity for tolerance. Especially when the vulgarians in question occupied such lovely lands. So, as they had for…

— David E. Stannard

“He may seem the fool who has given his all, by the wise men of the world; but it was the apparent fools who…

— Patrick Pearse

“You were born here. You and your children will have American stories, and they’ll be better than any sorrowful Irish tales. At the end,…

— Susan Denning

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

— Seamus Heaney

“We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“If there were only three Irishmen in the world you'd find two of them in a corner talking about the other.”

— Brandan Araoz Maria

“One of my colleagues in the Senate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once made this simple but profound observation about us Irish: “To fail to understand…

— Joe Biden