Children Quote by Susan Denning

“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

“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark…

— Eilis Flynn

“If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion…

— Pádraig Pearse

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

— Matthew Quick

“And he got going from there to America. Worked his passage, I s'pose, like a lot more. And I heard he did well in…

— Eddie Lenihan

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

— Thomas Adcock

“America may have been providentially chosen, but that was far from true for a good number of its inhabitants. The same racist ideology that…

— Kathryn Miles

“The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans. That experience should be part of every…

— Historica Press

“May your neighbors respect you, Trouble neglect you, The angels protect you, And heaven accept you. Irish blessing”

— Janice Thompson

“He said you have to be on the side of the losers, the people with bad lungs. You have to be with those who…

— Hugo Hamilton

“One of my colleagues in the Senate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once made this simple but profound observation about us Irish: “To fail to understand…

— Joe Biden

“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