Irish Quotes
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To me, the real opinion polls are the tangible facts: the growing creation of jobs, the number of planning permissions, the number of commercial vans being sold - the signs that the Irish people are regaining confidence.
Enda Kenny
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Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers.
Penelope Spheeris
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I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.
Kenneth Branagh
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Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.
Alice McDermott
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All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.
Tyson Fury
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I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. I'm just myself, I stick by my guns and I treat people the way I think they should be treated, regardless of their status. And I just have a laugh.
Colin Farrell
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The last thing we want to see, given the success of the peace process, is the return of installations along the Irish border.
Martin McGuinness
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I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.
Peter Riegert
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I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.
Peggy Johnson
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It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Brendan Behan
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I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might be part Negro, might be part Jew, part Muslim, part Irish. So I can't afford to be supercilious about any group of people because I may be that people.
James A. Michener
