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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day. — Kitty Kelley

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

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

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

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'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's day. I'm lucky sevens. — Billy Corgan

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

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

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

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

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 grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen. — Moira Kelly

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 was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American. — John Cusack

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

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

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

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 green
On 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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