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

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away. — Paul McCartney

When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step. — Gerald Kersh

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about. — Austin O'Malley

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea. — James Joyce

Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there. — Bernie Mcgill

My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European. — Tom Kettle

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible. — Charles Haughey

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish. — Dominic West

She took the sea with her
Not beaches but the grey
relentless Irish sea,
its rhythm and the crying gulls. — Caroline Davies

The first volume of Irish folktales was Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, published in 1825 by Thomas Croker from Cork. — Ryan Hackney

Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation. — Robert Peel

Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland. — James Connolly

What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick? — Billy Conn

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system. — Mary Robinson

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

World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives. — Martin McGuinness

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion. — Patrick Pearse

What can I say? I'm Irish, I love a good potato. — Sophia Tallon

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears. — Katharine Tynan

[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out. — Courtney Love

I am a war man in the day of war, but I am a peace man in the day of peace. — Michael Collins

There's an energy that hangs between strangers even in a crowd. — Claire Fullerton

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead. — John C. Hawkes

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. — George Bernard Shaw

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

I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay. — John Boyne

After a taste of a Scot, you'll never look elsewhere again."
A brunette smiled seductively, "That's quite a boast."
"I'm quite a man. — Donna Grant

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful. — Katharine Tynan

The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs. — Bernadette Devlin

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs. — John Pentland Mahaffy

Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father} — Richard Mc Sweeney

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish. — Caroline Corr

More guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition. — Adrian McKinty

To have come from Ireland no matter how long ago is to be of Ireland in some part forever. — Frank Delaney

Love is patient. Love is kind. It bears all things. Love never fails. Love is as strong as death. — O.R. Melling

You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you. — Charles Haughey

Romantic Ireland's dead and gone
It's with O' Leary in the grave
(September 1913) — W.B.Yeats

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. — John Boyle O'Reilly

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. — G.K. Chesterton

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. — Seamus Heaney

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations? — Dorothy Salisbury Davis

It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made. — Ciaran Hinds

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance. — William Butler Yeats

I think being a woman is like being Irish ... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time. — Iris Murdoch

Religion dies hard in the Irish. — Katharine Tynan

The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question. — Katharine Tynan

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. — George Bernard Shaw

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either. — James Callaghan

There are more people of Irish descent in Boston and surrounding New England than there are in Ireland. — Anonymous

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists. — Alan Parker

The English imposed their language on Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and they weren't terribly nice about it. — Howard Tomb

But listen well. In Tir na nOg, because there is no sorrow, there is no joy.
Do you hear the meaning of the seachain's song? — Alexandra Ripley

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another. — Samuel Johnson

Irish improves a poet. — Sina Queyras

I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home. — Shane Filan

You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer. — Hal Roach