Irish Quotes
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I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.
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The lion's share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.
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As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.
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I am at the table. I am first generation. I am Irish-Puerto Rican. I am a single mom.
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I have three older brothers. I'm Irish. I'm feisty.
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I'm honoured and delighted to be named the 'Irish Times'/Irish Sports Council Sportswoman of the Year 2014. This has been an amazing year for me and for Irish women in sport, and I would like to congratulate all the finalists in their respective fields who have excelled at major sporting events.
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Hats are the epitome of Englishness, and a royal wedding is the penultimate moment for a hat designer. I'm Irish, but I am a royalist and I believe in fantasy.
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I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.
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I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.
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I'm a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish lilt, too.
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I'm Irish, I'm from New York, and I definitely have issues.
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I would love to be able to speak my own language and maybe have an interview in Irish, maybe after my fights.
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Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a lot about ethics and responsibility. He also introduced me to a lot of wonderful folk music.
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I am of Irish, Italian, and French Canadian descent.
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Here are some happy English soldiers.They are going to make the Irish happy.
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My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.
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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
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I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.
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H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either. They're spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and blottoed; or simply trolleyed or sloshed. In Kerry, you're said to be flamin'; in Waterford, you're in the horrors; and in Cavan, you've gone baloobas, a tough one to wrap your tongue around if you ARE baloobas. In Donegal, you're steamin', while the afflicted in Limerick are out of their tree.
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By 2007, an uncompetitive, bloated, over-borrowed and distorted Irish economy had been left at the mercy of subsequent international events without the safeguards, institutions, and mindset needed to survive and prosper as a small open economy inside the euro area.
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.
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I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.
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My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.
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My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
