Irish Quotes
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I could have kept writing 'Irish' novels such as Birchwood and probably had a good deal more success than I did, especially on this side of the Atlantic. But you have to try to do many things. You have to try to do things that you actually think you're incapable of.
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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 used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home.
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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.
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The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.
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The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.
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I am very proud to be Irish.
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In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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My uncle was a photographer for 'The Irish Times.'
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I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
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My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.
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I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.
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The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture.
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I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
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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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I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.
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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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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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I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.
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I am descended from Irish immigrants. A century ago, the Irish knew well how American society-and law enforcement-viewed them: as drunks, ruffians, and criminals. Law enforcement’s biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.'
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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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I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.
