Irish Quotes
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There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.
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I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.
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'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.
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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.
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I went into the world confident my tea training would open many doors. And I did particularly well with the Irish and fellow Nova Scotians over 60. But this only got me so far. It took a long time to cultivate the tricks of easy social interaction.
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My dad's Irish, so I was visiting Ireland a lot as a kid, so it's not totally foreign to me.
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That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
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My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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Oh Paddy dear, and did you hear The news that's going round? The shamrock is forbid by law To grow on Irish ground.
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Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.
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I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, 'You can be both.' Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me.
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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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.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish, Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
