Irish Quotes

Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.

John McGahern
- World
- Women
- Family
I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Irish

I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'

Alice McDermott
- Up
- Work
- Real
It was an incredible effort by the Irish down in Tallahassee. Jameis Winston was too tough in the second half; congrats to the Seminoles.

Dick Vitale
Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

Andrea Corr
- Irish
I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

Brian Dennehy
- Family
- Catholic
- Irish
In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere.

Aidan Turner
- Irish
I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish.

Adelaide Kane
- Mother
- Father
- Irish