Books Quote by Thomas Cahill

“It is one of their beauties, the Irish, the way they crush and expand the language all at once How they mangle it and…

— Colum McCann

“I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at…

— James Joyce

“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

“You were born here. You and your children will have American stories, and they’ll be better than any sorrowful Irish tales. At the end,…

— Susan Denning

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

— Matthew Quick

“But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when…

— Eddie Lenihan

“I was beginning to understand how the Irish mentality worked. The more foolish, illogical or surreal one's actions were perceived t be (and mine…

— Tony Hawks

“All the same, she wondered if they did know what she thought and felt, if they knew without knowing, in that way the Irish…

— Benjamin Black

“Irish has not so much a common formula as a common character.”

— Lew Bryson

“[on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.”

— M. Edward McNally

“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people”

— Jan Morris

“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”

— Oscar Wilde