Irish Quotes
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You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.
Bonnie Tyler -
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
Fiona Shaw
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My wife's a loving, funny, Irish-spirited person, and I'm still surprised at some of the things she says. She makes me laugh every day.
Gary Sinise -
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
Harold Nicolson -
Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer, very much the real deal. She tells me that every single Irish review of her new book has made passing reference to Cecelia Ahern. Weird, given that Emer is to chick-lit what Shane MacGowan is to sobriety.
Olaf Tyaransen -
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
Oliver St. John -
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Edna O'Brien -
My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.
John Collison
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My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wonky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.
Jo Brand -
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangover.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than people's imaginations.
Megan Fox -
I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.
Liam Neeson -
How do you spell the name of the Irish prime minister? It sounds like 'teeshuck', but we spell it 'taoiseach.' We respect foreign spellings these days - a sign of our more egalitarian times, perhaps.
David Crystal -
Oh Paddy dear, and did you hear The news that's going round? The shamrock is forbid by law To grow on Irish ground.
Dion Boucicault
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When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould. Now there are thousands of comedians out there, and I don't think I can be above it all.
Jasper Carrott -
Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
Lady Gregory -
I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
Gabriel Byrne -
The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
Jack Charlton -
I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.
Bobby Sands -
People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
Martin Short
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The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.
Ian Watson -
I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
Eavan Boland -
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
J. P. Donleavy -
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
Garry Hynes