Before Quote by Karen Abbott

Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?

— Elizabeth Bowen

They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.

— Conan O'Brien

My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride,…

— Hamza Yusuf

I'll also tell you that to no less extent my mom, who was the daughter of Irish immigrants.

— Mike Pence

The Irish were treated horribly, even here in Boston. For example, in the late nineteenth century they were treated pretty much like African Americans.…

— Noam Chomsky

“by 1891, nearly two-fifths of all living people born in Ireland were living outside Ireland.”

— Thomas Sowell

“a new wave of immigrants would replace the Irish, fleeing a different but no less abject country, the process starting anew. The engine huffed…

— Colson Whitehead

I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to…

— Michael Bloomberg

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look…

— Anonymous

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.

— William Hamilton Maxwell

My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland.

— Michael Connelly

I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and…

— Werner Herzog