Quote by L.H. Thomson

“It is one of their beauties, the Irish, the way they crush and expand the language all at once How they mangle it and…

— Colum McCann

“For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.”

— Jennifer Armstrong

“You were an American now and don’t let him hear you call yourself an Irish-American or a German-American.”

— Mary Beth Smith

“So they say things like, “Go back to your country,” as if their Irish ancestors never walked through Ellis Island.”

— Dominique Christina Ashaheed

“Probably when people hear our national anthem they think of me. A real American hero.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Irish. I should have known it. Such a gift of gab you’ve got, and all the charm in the world.”

— Nora Roberts

“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

“We Irish are the only people in the world who are actually nostalgic about the future.”

— Joe Biden

“The Irish are a merry race and surely they are mad, for all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad.” The”

— Michael Capuzzo

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's…

— Allegra Huston

“I don't hate the English and I don't know do I love the Irish. But I love him. I'm sure of that now. And…

— Jamie O'Neill

“Do you ever feel that everything would be okay, if only you had an Irish accent?”

— Graham Parke