Confidence Quote by Tim Egan

Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where…

— Michael D. Higgins

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

— Matthew Quick

“Well, they may not be civilized, but they are certainly confident--and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.”

— Thomas Cahill

“You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you…

— Mary Deasy

“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

“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

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this…

— Lydia M. Child

“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

“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

“I feel more strongly with every recurring year that our country has no tradition which does it so much honour and which it should…

— James Joyce

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

— Fiona Shaw

“Chance and Destiny have between them woven two-thirds of all history, and of the history of Ireland wellnigh the whole. The literature of a…

— William Butler Yeats