Irish Quotes
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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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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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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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'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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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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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 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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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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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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In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.
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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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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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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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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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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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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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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 Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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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.
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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.
