Banality Quote by James Joyce

I think it's an Irish thing. We don't really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it.…

— Conor McGregor

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

— Diane Wakoski

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

Cursing is heavily used in the Irish language. It's not a stretch for me, and I have no qualms about it. It doesn't fall…

— Paula Malcomson

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

I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

— Oscar Wilde

“Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other…

— Robin Flower

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

— Samuel Johnson

So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's…

— Jack Reynor

I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful in a…

— Steve Coogan

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

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as…

— Anne McCaffrey