Character Quote by Lew Bryson

“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

“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.”

— Thomas Adcock

“A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn’t.”

— Kate Atkinson

“A real Irishman will give everything of himself--except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples.”

— Jim Tully Beggars Abroad

“Well, they may not be civilized, but they are certainly confident--and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.”

— Thomas Cahill

“Irish heroes, for one reason or another, have come off, it must be owned, but poorly before the bar of history.”

— Emily Lawless

“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

“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.”

— Matthew Quick

“But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when…

— Eddie Lenihan

“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people”

— Jan Morris

“There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age.”

— Elizabeth Berg

“What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person…

— Frank Delaney