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The problem with being Irish ... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
— Roddy Doyle
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 Irish. I think about death all the time.
— Jack Nicholson
The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.
— James Joyce
Like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.
— Jennifer Stone
I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.
— Edward Burns
The kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next.
— Anne Enright
For a while children live under their mother's skin. Then one day in the future, the mother lives under the child's.
— Suzanne Supplee
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
She took the sea with herNot beaches but the grey
relentless Irish sea,
its rhythm and the crying gulls. — Caroline Davies
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
— Oscar Wilde
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
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.
— W. H. Auden
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
— George Bernard Shaw
Irish lace, hanging in the windows, filters the afternoon light, softening the lines on her face.
— Christina Baker Kline
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
As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.
— Patrick Pearse
Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish.
— Frank Carson
It's simply this:the Irish kiss,
a snog o' bliss,
be blessed luck
from any miss. — Richelle E. Goodrich
The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.
— Dick Spring
Requiems for the Departed contains seventeen short stories, inspired by Irish mythology, from some of the finest contemporary writers in the business.
— Gerard Brennan
Drop by Bell's for an Irish Kiss anytime. The best in England
— JoAnne Kenrick
Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.
— Tom McGurk
I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'
— Kevin Barry
Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.
— Dave Allen
God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.
— Kinky Friedman
All the same, she wondered if they did know what she thought and felt, if they knew without knowing, in that way the Irish were so adept at doing.
— Benjamin Black
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
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 Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
— Samuel Johnson
Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.
— Cillian Murphy
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
— Katharine Tynan
The films that I've made with my company Irish DreamTime are close to my heart. 'The Greatest' being one of them, and 'Evelyn' being another.
— Pierce Brosnan
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
It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.
— Thomas Davis
Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.
— Martin McGuinness
Religion dies hard in the Irish.
— Katharine Tynan
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
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
— Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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 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
For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.
— Karen Marie Moning
And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.
— William Butler Yeats
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 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
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
I think being a woman is like being Irish ... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
— Iris Murdoch
Remember that God is everywhere, all around us, constantly reaching out to us, even in the most unlikely situations.
— The Irish Jesuits
Vowels Irish marks long vowels with an accent; short vowels have no accent. Here are the main vowel sounds:
— Ryan Hackney
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
— Seamus Heaney
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
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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
Wearing of the greenOn March seventeen.
Shamrocks and Irish folk
Take o'er the scene! — Richelle E. Goodrich
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
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
— Lara Flynn Boyle
Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
— Robert E. Howard
