Country Quote by Lady Gregory

“A rooster crowing in a doorway means visitors are coming. An old Scottish superstition. The”

— Martha Conway

The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.

— Roddy Doyle

“Fortunately, at that time, Ireland wasn’t in the world. So we weren’t in the World War. Old Roundrims came up with that. Brilliant, really.…

— Niall Williams

“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”

— James Joyce

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

— Winston Churchill

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

— Seamus Heaney

Irish as a Paddy's pig.

— Eugene O'Neill

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, 'I know you.…

— Rory McIlroy

Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.

— Margaret Thatcher

To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're…

— Malachy McCourt

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

— Paul McCartney