Back Quote by Roddy Doyle

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

— Colin Farrell

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going…

— Anne Enright

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be…

— John McGahern

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

— Jodie Foster

What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?

— Billy Conn

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and…

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

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

What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?

— John F. Kennedy

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

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

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

— Winston Churchill

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan