Irish Quotes
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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'.
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The gradual colonization of the west from the Irish kingdom of Dál Riata during the first half of the first millennium AD, and the consolidation of their Gaelic kingdom in Scotland following their defeat by the Ui Neill, had an immense cultural impact in Scotland.
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I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.
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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.
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When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.
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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.
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I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
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I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.
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The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico, that's for sure.
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Visitors to places like New York are amazed to see the way in which Serbs and Croatians, Sikhs and Hindus, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, Jews and Palestinians, all seem to work and live together in harmony. How is this possible when these same groups are spearing each other and burning each other's homes in so many places in the world?
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I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.
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I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
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But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
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Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal.
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I couldn't fit in the Irish community in New York. I was never one of the boys because they would talk about baseball or basketball, and I knew nothing about it.
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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.
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The films that I've made with my company Irish DreamTime are close to my heart. 'The Greatest' being one of them, and 'Evelyn' being another.
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The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.
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I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.
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I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces. I hadn't yet learnt how careful outsiders have to be when talking about race in America, and I'd put my foot in it. Someone stood up and said aggressively, 'What do you mean by Irish faces?'
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“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.”
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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
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I felt that the IRA, in the context of Irish history, and Sinn Fein were a legitimate force that had to be recognized, and you wouldn't have peace without them.
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There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?
