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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

Maria Edgeworth

Tags: Our Never Heart

I miss Irish milk. Probably not as much as Superquinn sausages.

Tristan MacManus

Tags: Much Miss Irish

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

Brendan Behan

Tags: People Other Irish

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

Gerry Adams

Tags: Leadership Every Made

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

Martin McGuinness

Tags: Everyone Leave Outside

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

Victoria Smurfit

Tags: Family You Go

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.

Stephen Rea

Tags: First Film Movie

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

Fiona Shaw

Tags: History Like Lot

Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.

Enda Kenny

Tags: People Our Going

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

Jack Lynch

Tags: Government People See

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

Maeve Binchy

Tags: You Very Had

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

Gabriel Byrne

Tags: More Than Could

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.

Garry Hynes

Tags: Women Think More

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

Liam Neeson

Tags: Religion Just Up

Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.

Erin Andrews

Tags: Am I Am Through

Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.

Floyd Skloot

Tags: Imagination John Irish

I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.

Lady Gregory

Tags: Think Had Were

I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.

Sandra Bullock

Tags: Know Thing Boy

I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker.

Lenny Abrahamson

Tags: Who Up Am

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

Robert Vaughn

Tags: Come Long Line

Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man.

Conor McGregor

Tags: Truth Me Man

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

Douglas Hyde

Tags: Up Way Which

I have three older brothers. I'm Irish. I'm feisty.

Martha McSally

Tags: Three Older Brothers

Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.

Alice McDermott

Tags: Me Being Myself

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

Sean Connery

Tags: About More Them

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.

Aidan Turner

Tags: You Out Make

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Winston Churchill

Tags: Always Bit Found

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

Peter O'Toole

Tags: Women Home Always

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.

Flann O'Brien

Tags: Would Sense Given

I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.

Brendan Gleeson

Tags: Music About Had

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

Ben Nicholson

Tags: Love Part Culture

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

William Butler Yeats

Tags: Out Up Your

Our common membership of the E.U. provided an important external context to the Irish and U.K. governments working together for peace. It should not be discounted lightly.

Enda Kenny

Tags: Peace Our Should

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

Tags: Like Would Were

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

Tags: Time About Really

I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.

Fionnula Flanagan

Tags: Women Funny Think

My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.

Nico Mirallegro

Tags: Dad Lives Half

Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging.

Tom Paulin

Tags: Something Many Find

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

Olivia Wilde

Tags: Dad Going Back

All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.

Tyson Fury

Tags: People Am I Am

Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'

Robert Kennedy

Tags: Up Even Need

In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland for nine tenths of a century, will be repealed.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Tags: Will Which Then

But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.

Gerry Adams

Tags: Peace Going Then

Optimism can be relearnt.

Marian Keyes

Tags: Optimism

I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, 'You can be both.' Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me.

Lenny Abrahamson

Tags: You Me Like

I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.

Colm Meaney

Tags: History Like Being

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

Norman Mailer

Tags: Men Who Know

I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but also in many instances, the Irish writers are writing about people and circumstances that I can relate to.

Daniel Woodrell

Tags: People About Always

I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.

Lady Gregory

Tags: Had Back Put

I envy the dead.

William Mulholland

Tags: Dead Envy

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