Irish People Quotes
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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
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
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
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
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
Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.
— Paul Haggis
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
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
Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.
— Spike Milligan