Irish Quotes

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.

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?

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

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.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.

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.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.