Quote by Nelson Algren

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

— Samuel Johnson

“The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.”

— Mary Deasy

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

— Bonnie Tyler

The Irish are a very fair people, they never speak well of one another.

— Anonymous

The Irish are just good people, they always have been.

— Spencer Matthews

The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.

— Roddy Doyle

I am concerned that there's a cavalier attitude to the Irish Peace Process. What poor memories some have; I remember only too well the…

— Dervla Kirwan

Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful…

— Friedrich Engels

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

— Brendan Behan

“. . . I still hold two truths with equal and fundamental certainty. One: the British did terrible things to the Irish. Two: the…

— John Dominic Crossan

“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

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad…

— Theodore Dreiser