Boarding house Quote by Maggie O'Farrell

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came…

— Marian Keyes

When I worked at The Independent newspaper, I had colleagues who would laugh and say that whenever they picked up the phone to my…

— Maggie O'Farrell

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

“This may come as a surprise to generations of Irish pupils, but the Irish language wasn't invented just to infuriate people forced to learn…

— Darach Ó Séaghdha

The Irish were treated horribly, even here in Boston. For example, in the late nineteenth century they were treated pretty much like African Americans.…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I think on my dad's side, like a lot of Canadians, there was a sign of Irish in me somewhere way back, like a…

— Noah Reid

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic…

— Douglas Hyde

I think that's why you see so many Americans in Dublin look so sad: they are looking for the door through which they can…

— Frank McCourt

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

— Anne Enright

“Interestingly, some of the worst anti-Irish discrimination came from the Scotch-Irish, who wanted to make clear that they were a different group from the…

— Ryan Hackney

“What Ireland shares with many societies around the world is a dangerous reality: once a group of people is isolated as being in some…

— Mary Raftery