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Irish People Quotes & Sayings

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When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity. — Gerry Adams

Some people come into your life as blessings, and others come in your life as lessons. You are both to me. — Christy Pastore

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

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true. — Anne Enright

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

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

There are not many Irish people playing tennis! — Goran Ivanisevic

The malnourished Irish were very vulnerable to diseases. In fact, more people died from illness than from actual starvation. Typhus — Ryan Hackney

Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest. — Tobias Hill

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano. — Fiona Shaw

We have to be concerned about the gun killing that people who are Americans, who are Irish, and who are English, who are all around the country. — Dalia Mogahed

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. — Fiona Shaw

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

They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home. — Conan O'Brien

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue. — Martin Short

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

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older. — Katharine Tynan

I'm interested in why people talk like they do. Like Boston Irish. It's so laid back. Why is that? — Sean Bean

In the spirit of the Irish people, Osama bin Laden, you can kiss my royal Irish ass! — Mike Moran

The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars — James Connolly

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

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 like Irish pubs, except for all the loud music and drinking, and people acting like idiots. — Dov Davidoff

I know Irish-American people. I know what their homes look like. I know what they have for dinner. I know how they turn a phrase. — Alice McDermott

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything. — Dan Savage

Irish and Italian are my two favourite people. — Paul Haggis

I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I'm an American - you know, you grow. — George Carlin

Irish politics are tribal, incestuous, tangled and furtive, incomprehensible even to many of the people involved. — Tana French

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. [speaking about the Irish] — Sigmund Freud

That's the Irish People all over - they treat a serious thing as a joke and a joke as a serious thing. — Sean O'Casey

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. — William Howard Taft

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

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish. — Oliver St. John

Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people — Jan Morris

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

In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I'm sorry, did I say 'scientists'? I meant Irish people. — Tina Fey

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse. — Jack Lynch

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. — Brendan Behan

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one. — Spike Milligan