Arms Quote by Mark Twain

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

It was deliciously pagan.

— Gregory Maguire

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

— Katharine Tynan

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

— Liam Neeson

“The arrival of Christianity in Ireland brought with it the painful disconnection from the earth that still resonates today. Until then, people lived in…

— Mary Reynolds

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never…

— Louis MacNeice

“The Holy Mother has many faces, but you know it's her from her blue cloak. She is said to be the spirit in all…

— Christopher Moore

“Only hinted at in some of these tales, and clearly stated in others, it is apparent that there was a long and continuing conflict…

— Colin Bord

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases,…

— P. L. Travers

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

— James Joyce

“It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.”

— James Joyce