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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
— Samuel Butler
The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.
— James Joyce
Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.
— Andrea Corr
Like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.
— Jennifer Stone
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.
— Richard Flanagan
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
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.
— W. H. Auden
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
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
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
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 come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.
— Robert Vaughn
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.
— Liam Neeson
For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.
— Karen Marie Moning
I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.
— Richard Widmark
For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.
— Regina Brett
I just shook hands with a naked goddess. What was that she called you? She-ya-han? Does that mean dumbass in Old Irish or something?
— Kevin Hearne
I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.
— John Cusack
My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.
— Brian McDermott
I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'
— Kevin Barry
I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!
— Audrey Hepburn
What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history
— Peter Cunningham
For all their reputation for chattiness and storytelling, the Irish I knew were so skillful with words there was sometimes no need for them at all.
— Camille DeAngelis
The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.
— Laurie R. King
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
I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.
— Mary McCormack
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
— Lara Flynn Boyle
Wearing of the greenOn March seventeen.
Shamrocks and Irish folk
Take o'er the scene! — Richelle E. Goodrich
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
Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.
— Dick Spring
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
Memories, sprang up in the most unusual ways, happy little gifts - as long as you didn't let the sadness creep in.
— Suzanne Supplee
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
— John Millington Synge
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
— Samuel Johnson
I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.
— John F. Kennedy
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
— Edna O'Brien
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
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
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
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
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
— Seamus Heaney
I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
— Alex Haley
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
— Victoria Smurfit
