Irish Quotes
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There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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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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'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've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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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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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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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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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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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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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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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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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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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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I was born into an Irish Catholic family in the New York area in this great, wonderful, and safe country, but the Holocaust has always haunted me, and it has long stood as a stumbling block to faith. How could such a thing be? How is that consistent with the concept of a loving God?
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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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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
