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