Irish Quotes
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The revelations of the Cloyne report have brought the government, Irish Catholics, and the Vatican to an unprecedented juncture.
Enda Kenny
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The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts (originally Scots) were now Irish (living in brackets) and vice versa. It is essential to keep these distinctions clearly in mind (and verce visa).
W. C. Sellar
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If you ask me where do I belong, it would be somewhere in the Irish Sea almost - born in Hong Kong, Chinese mother, Portuguese father from Macao, lived in Europe most of my life.
John Rocha
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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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Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.
Jeb Bush
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Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.
Alice McDermott
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I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.
Genevieve O'Reilly
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My mom's half-Irish, and my dad's half-Irish. We don't know much about my mom's side, but my dad's mom came from Belfast and married my grandfather, who was from Wales.
Coco Rocha
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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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The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.
Pete Hamill
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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
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We would probably claim Kafka as an Irish writer. His tone of voice is certainly quite Irish: that sense of melancholy, that sense of strangeness and of being a stranger in the world. I think that we empathise with that very much indeed.
John Banville
