Baby Quote by Lady Gregory

Father Ted' was written by Irish people, so that was fine, but around the time we were shooting it 'EastEnders' went to Ireland and…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.

— Anjelica Huston

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

— Frank McCourt

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

— Gena Rowlands

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood…

— Frank McCourt

I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless…

— Frank McCourt

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

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from…

— James Nesbitt

There was so much anti-Irish sentiment not just from other kids at the school I went to in Britain, but also the teachers themselves.…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history…

— James D'arcy

“The behaviour of the English people I had run into was making it very difficult to nail down a theory that the reason my…

— Tony Hawks