Consequence Quote by Werner Herzog

“Irish demographics reveal two startling facts: There are around 70 million people worldwide who claim Irish descent, and Ireland today has barely half the…

— Ryan Hackney

Maybe some things that weren't so great were said about the Irish when they came. But Americans've done well by absorbing immigrants and it's…

— Tim Kaine

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic…

— Fiona Shaw

I'm a history buff, so I've been reading lots of books on Irish and American history.

— Sheamus

Finally Irish were accepted into society and became part of the political system, and there were Kennedys, and so on. But the same is…

— Noam Chomsky

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history…

— James D'arcy

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

— Anne Enright

People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless…

— Frank McCourt

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it…

— James Cagney

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

— Frank McCourt

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

— Seamus Heaney

From my earliest youth I have regarded the connection between Ireland and Great Britain as the curse of the Irish nation, and felt convinced,…

— Theobald of Bec