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

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

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. — Samuel Butler

I'm just a loud Irish guy. — Bill O'Reilly

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

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. — Oscar Wilde

I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world. — P.L. Travers

He brightened. "Are you Irish then?"
"My last name is McNally. I'm as Irish as Paddy's pig. — Ashlyn Chase

Like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone. — Jennifer Stone

Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays. — Garry Hynes

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant. — James Joyce

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them. — Edward Burns

May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead. (Irish blessing) — Anonymous

Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country. — Katharine Tynan

When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish ... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British. — Brenda Fricker

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say. — Henry Fonda

I don't know what kind of swag I'd get if I were extra Irish. It would just be, like, extra potatoes. Or like a free pint of Guinness. — Saoirse Ronan

Lot of Irish in Mexico. The Mexican name, Obregon? It comes from O'Brien. — John Sandford

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. — W. H. Auden

Well, they may not be civilized, but they certainly are confident - and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature. — Thomas Cahill

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers. — Marianne Moore

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy. — Colum McCann

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. — Fiona Shaw

I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. — Orson Welles

Books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality. — Joe Queenan

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

(I love that expression. "Swing a dead cat." Where the hell did it come from? Was swinging dead cats a thing at some point?) — Leslie Irish Evans

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet. — Oliver Herford

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

The FBI had been a man's world - usually men of Irish or Italian heritage schooled by Jesuits and raised in a closed culture of police and priests. — Tim Weiner

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

My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there. — Matthew McConaughey

We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free? — Ben Robertson

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. — W.B.Yeats

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? — Lara Flynn Boyle

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. — John Millington Synge

Memories, sprang up in the most unusual ways, happy little gifts - as long as you didn't let the sadness creep in. — Suzanne Supplee

Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish. — Robert E. Howard

We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places in our hearts. — Eilis Flynn

You are a different kind of Irishman, Goll," was all she said.

"Every Irishman is a different kind of Irishman," said Goll. — Charles Brady

President Obama told the Irish people that America will always stand by them, to which Israel laughed. — Jay Leno

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs. — Matt Dillon

I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now! — Chris O'Dowd

Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through. — Erin Andrews

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

...if you want to know what my ultimate goal is in all this, I can tell you in one simple sentence. I want to take the stick out of opera's ass. — Cindy Irish

And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. — James Joyce

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background. — Jodie Foster

I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations. — Michael Scott

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. — Robert Vaughn

Germans found "American" (by which they often meant Irish) bars and their drinking customs both peculiar and unhealthy. — Donna R. Gabaccia

Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions. — Tyson Fury

Why would she do that?"
"Because she's a Yankee - a Maine Yankee, the worst kind. On a given day, they can make the Irish look logical. — Stephen King

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill. — Harold Nicolson

Irish Spring," the third book in the
Derry Greene thriller series, is due
out later in 2015. — Jack Adler

I'm Irish, I'm from New York, and I definitely have issues. — Dean Winters

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. — Lord Dunsany

May you always have A sunbeam to warm you, A moonbeam to charm you, A sheltering angel so nothing can harm you. An Irish Blessing — Julie Garwood

Irish girls, red hair,' I replied, remembering a picture of them from Mrs. Casnoff's 'People Who Want to Kill Us All' lecture at Hex Hall last year. — Rachel Hawkins

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep. — John F. Kennedy

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry. — Allegra Huston

Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace.. — Wolfe Tone

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

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

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact. — Alex Haley

I thought the butler always did it," someone remarked under their breath. — Carlene O'Connor

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. — Brendan Behan

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school. — Deepak Chopra

The Irish Six Million Dollar man only cost three quid. — Frank Carson

His coat smelled like Irish Spring and a little bit like potpourri. — Rainbow Rowell

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. — Edna O'Brien

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

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. — Bradley Cooper

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check. — Edward Burns

Wearing of the green
On March seventeen.
Shamrocks and Irish folk
Take o'er the scene! — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl. — Lara Flynn Boyle

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

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish. — Mary McCormack

First, I'm going to teach you how to Irish Whip someone."
"Oh, that sounds kinky. I want my safeword to be peaches," I said, grinning. — Kyle Adams

Well I had the perfect job, perfect house and perfect family and I didn't know it. I kept striving for more. — Annette J. Dunlea

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise. — Dervla Murphy

For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one. — Karen Marie Moning

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

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

If it's only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on." Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhasody. — Jina Bacarr

Half the time, in this life, you wouldn't know where you are nor when. There are moments of unpleasant liveliness. Tamp that the fuck down is best. — Kevin Barry

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report. — Dick Spring

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

I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. — Peter O'Toole

It has always been my dream and ambition to introduce Irish dancing to the world. — Michael Flatley

To the great delight of two ducks, four cats, five hens and half a dozen Irish children; for they were out of the city for now. — Louisa May Alcott

He was only the second or third in his sprawling family (their religion, Skip once said, was Irish Alcoholic) to ever go to college. Clan — Stephen King

When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent? — Michael Flatley

Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course. — Nancy Mitford

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years. — Nobuo Uematsu

Bullshit, as you Americans say.
He's Irish.
The Irish say bullshit too. — Kevin Hearne

The way he talked sounded part Yankee, part foreign, like one of those friendly Irish policeman in the old movies: Ouch, mind you! — Barbara Kingsolver

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over. — Brigid Brophy