Irish Quotes
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The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.
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My uncle was a photographer for 'The Irish Times.'
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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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He was an Irish patriot true and fearless.
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The revelations of the Cloyne report have brought the government, Irish Catholics, and the Vatican to an unprecedented juncture.
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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'm proud of both sides, and they are both really well known to be fighting heritages, so I tell everyone all the time - they say, 'What are you'? - I say I'm Irish. I'm Puerto Rican. I guess I was born to fight.
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The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.
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I look Italian, but I act Irish.
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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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I'm just an Irish biddy.
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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.
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Because I'm Irish, I've always done an accent. Not doing an accent is off-putting because I sound like me. I love doing an accent. Doing the accent from West Virginia was great, and we had to get specific with it.
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If it weren't for my Irish dancing, I wouldn't be modeling.
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I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still so curious about the bigger world. It's grand to be alive in a time when mobility is so accessible.
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I've always been fond of my heritage, particularly my Irish heritage. But I'm also from all over the world.
Eugene Simon -
The rain whispered down, soft as the touch of cobwebs, shrouding the green of the land in swathes of clinging grey. Maude had grown accustomed to the damp climate, to the clouds that constantly swept in, heavy and moist, off the Irish Sea. She had become used to hearing the soft, guttural tongue of the native Gaels in place of French and the stretched vowels of the English; to feeling as if she was living on the edge of the world, where the seasons moved, but time stood still. And always it rained.
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My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.
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The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.
