Irish Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I've had support from all sides, from people who call themselves Irish, from Northern Irish, to the whole of the UK, to people in America, and it would be terrible for me to segregate myself from one of those groups that support me so much.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

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.

I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me.

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

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

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

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

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.