Failing Quote by Katharine Tynan

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything…

— Douglas Hyde

Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures…

— Sean Brady

“I feel more strongly with every recurring year that our country has no tradition which does it so much honour and which it should…

— James Joyce

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

— Brendan Behan

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

“The only decision to focus on is the one you are still able to make,” he said. I nodded. We Irish suffer a long-standing…

— Eugene O'Kelly

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

— Wolfe Tone

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

If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps…

— Mick Jagger

Irish people are still very prickly about Catholic Church. Despite all the scandals and cover-ups that have rocked the church, you can only push…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

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

— Samuel Johnson

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

— Henry David Thoreau