Irish Quotes
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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?
Leon Uris -
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.
John Hume
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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 -
When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.
Brenda Fricker -
An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
George Bernard Shaw -
I look Italian, but I act Irish.
Ken Cuccinelli -
The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.
Pete Hamill -
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
George Bernard Shaw
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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.
Liam Neeson -
I'm just an Irish biddy.
Judy Garland -
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?'
Colm Toibin -
If it weren't for my Irish dancing, I wouldn't be modeling.
Coco Rocha -
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 -
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.
Stuart Townsend
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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.
Eve Hewson -
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.
Elizabeth Chadwick -
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.
Mariah Carey -
The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.
Margaret Mitchell