Catholic Quote by John Pintard

“For the Irish, life is a matter of perpetual grievance. We remember the Famine, but forget the Draft Riots. We seal off our neighborhoods…

— Mary Gordon

Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

— James Connolly

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad…

— Theodore Dreiser

“The ultimate goal of the political elite is to privatize the air. So as not to destroy their own edifice of democratic compassion they…

— Dean Cavanagh

According to a brand new report, alcohol abuse in Ireland is on the rise. Mainly because the guy who didn't drink now does.

— Conan O'Brien

“What Ireland shares with many societies around the world is a dangerous reality: once a group of people is isolated as being in some…

— Mary Raftery

I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing,…

— Fionnula Flanagan

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been…

— Tana French

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

— Katharine Tynan

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

— George Berkeley

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

Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful…

— Friedrich Engels