Irish Quotes
-
If there is a vote in Britain to leave the E.U. there is a democratic imperative to provide Irish citizens with the right to vote in a border poll to end partition and retain a role in the E.U.
-
The Irish caught hell, the Jews caught hell, the Polacks caught hell. We want Ward 8 to be the model of diversity.
-
I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.
-
'I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman' 6
-
To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move, you do tend to stand out.
-
I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.
-
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
-
The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.
-
Have you ever heard of Irish, Poles, Germans, Italians and Jews being integrated? They go anywhere and just enjoy their rights. Why call it integration when black folks do the same thing? It's a con job.
-
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
-
Inherently in us as Irish people, wherever you are in the world, when you hear an Irish accent, it's like a moth to a flame. There's a real personable pride and camaraderie about being Irish.
-
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.
-
Importing foreign labor has always been the American way, beginning with 4 million slaves from Africa. Later came the Jews and Poles, the Hungarians, Italians and Irish, the Chinese and Japanese - everything you learned in sixth grade social studies about the great American melting pot.
-
The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.
-
I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.
-
My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
-
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
-
I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.
-
I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.
-
I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
-
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
-
The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.
-
There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
-
Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
