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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.
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!
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history. — © Terry Eagleton
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.
It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.
The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.
I think it's an Irish thing. We don't really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.
Us Irish are kind of like that: we're hard grafters. We like to prove everybody wrong.
The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a sense of the revelatory detail. I look for them.
I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which. — © Kevin Kline
I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats.
I like Irish pubs, except for all the loud music and drinking, and people acting like idiots.
Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great woman or man. However, each great group has a strong leader. In fact, great groups and great leaders create each other.
I've always been fond of my heritage, particularly my Irish heritage. But I'm also from all over the world.
Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.
There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP.
Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.
I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.
My mom is Filipino and my dad is half Russian and half Irish.
The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."
Ireland kind of reminds me of Jamaicans - there are a lot of Irish people in Jamaica. It's the blend of their easy-going nature, cool mentality, and warmth.
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.
I love flying the flag for Irish designers like Joanne Hynes, Simone Rocha, Natalie B Coleman, Lennon Courtney and Helen Steele.
Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.
I always tell people, you know, [J.F.Kennedy's] grandfather was born in Ireland and he was Irish-Catholic, and I thought, so maybe I could someday try do what he did.
Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.
The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.
And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.
I'm a history buff, so I've been reading lots of books on Irish and American history.
As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.
[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity. — © Gabriel Byrne
I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late.
My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European.
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
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.
I've always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I'm where I belong.
My mom is a Sikh immigrant born in a refugee camp. My Irish-Swedish-Norwegian-Danish-English-American dad grew up Baptist.
I bought a flat in Camden when I was 26, which I was extremely lucky to do. I think it's an Irish thing about owning land, giving you a bit of security.
The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.
I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true. — © Domhnall Gleeson
I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.
I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)
I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.
My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.
My name is a form of an Irish/Gaelic name that means 'Red King.'
My mother was very proud of being Irish and being a Gunnigan in a straightforward way.
The school I went to was so Gaelic that you learned how to play the tin whistle and how to Irish-dance in class.
We learn to laugh from the cultures that suffered most - from the Russians, Poles, and Irish - not from Sweden or France (the French go for Jerry Lewis - enough said).
I go to Spain a lot, in winter, for a blast of sunlight to banish the blues brought on by the Irish greys and drizzle. I love the cities of the Spanish interior.
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.
Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
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