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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There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.
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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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It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.
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I am, of course, directly descended from Brian Boru, the last king of Ireland, a fact certified by my mother and therefore beyond dispute. But as everybody else with a drop of Irish blood in his carcass is also a guaranteed descendant of the old billy goat, I am not overly arrogant because of this royal strain.
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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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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.
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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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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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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
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The school I went to was so Gaelic that you learned how to play the tin whistle and how to Irish-dance in class.
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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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There's no such thing as the 'Irish Internet.' It's just the Internet.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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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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I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.
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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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We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.
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You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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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.
