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I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.
Irish improves a poet.
I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know?
I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.
What nationality are you Mary-Ann can't tell you look like a mixed breed mut
I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. I'm just myself, I stick by my guns and I treat people the way I think they should be treated, regardless of their status. And I just have a laugh.
You are a different kind of Irishman, Goll," was all she said.
"Every Irishman is a different kind of Irishman," said Goll.
When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step.
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats.
There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age.
My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.
To be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.
She later said: "If the Irish people vote in favour of gay marriage then I'll vote for gay marriage in the Oireachtas in order to recognise that position, but at the moment that is not recognised by the Constitution."
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.
Do you know that an Irishman always respond to a question with another?"
And the Irish guy replies "Who told you that?
The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.
Now the Irish women always look so ashamed. They know they can never make a Jesus. It will be just another Mick.
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for ...
I'm first and foremost an Irishman, by birth, by nature, by soul, but an American citizen through and through as well.
Well, proud Mary's fat arse!
Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.
All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.
She's the Indian who lives in my attic.
Wow you need to get some sun."
"Shut up. I'm Irish.
She's like that first taste of something you can't have - that priceless sip of Macallan poured neat - and no matter how many times you're lucky enough to get just a splash more, it's never enough to get you drunk...
The sip of Macallan that ruins you for all others.
What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.
I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.
Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangove
I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker.
In the spirit of the Irish people, Osama bin Laden, you can kiss my royal Irish ass!
You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you ever find an Irishman who is wishy-washy on any one of those, you can make up your mind to it he is not the true article at all.
Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward.
The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.
Anne Shirley. Anne with an e.
My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.
If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here.
I've always been fascinated with Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, having lived in London in the '80s when there was an Irish republican bombing campaign there.
[Mrs. Clare] is a gaunt, trouser-wearing, woolen-shirted, cowboy-booted, ginger-colored, gingery-tempered woman of unrevealed age ("That's for me to know, and you to guess") but promptly revealed opinions, most of which are announced in a voice of rooster-crow altitude and penetration.
Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging.
Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.
Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun.
You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on!
Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.
Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.
I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.
Irish has not so much a common formula as a common character.
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
Gladstone .. spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question, ...
That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!
The politicians in Ireland speak Gaelic the way the Real Housewives of Orange County speak French.
If there were only three Irishmen in the world you'd find two of them in a corner talking about the other.
When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.
I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl.
She said she arrived from Ireland after sliding off the curve of a rainbow with a dancing leprechaun and flew to America on the back of an owl.
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.
Like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.
You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can't take the Irishness out of the man.
Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too.
Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.
Sexy, no alcoholic, but she drink like a toilet. Told her do me a favor and put your mouth on this faucet.
Stop!" said the Irishwoman. "I have one more word for you both; for you will both see me again before all is over. Those that wish to be clean, clean they will be; and those that wish to be foul, foul they will be. Remember.
A real Irishman will give everything of himself
except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples.
I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.
It's simply this:
the Irish kiss,
a snog o' bliss,
be blessed luck
from any miss.
She has the care of a mother, the love of a sister, a prostitute in bed. Who is she?
I'm still a scarred and surly Irishman.
An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.
Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.
An Irishman's wife gave birth to twins. Her husband wanted to know who the other man was.
What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?
I have lived in Ireland, visited all my life, and when I fight, I represent Ireland.
Clare. Give me a reason to stay.
I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
She has assisted at more than one Birth, has endur'd a hard-drinking and quarrelsome troop of Men-Folk, - who is this unfamily'd man in a Frock to call her child?
Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.
Florence Nightendick
She was the woman in the table.
Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
Now tell me, Sawyer O'Donnell, are you more Irish or Hispanic?"
"Half and half. Love the Mexican food but also love a good Irish whiskey on occasion. They're both really good lovers, you know. Hot-blooded and stand by their women.
Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?'
'If you mean am I Irish, the answer is yes.
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?
I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland. If I have a duty I will perform it to the full with the unshakable belief that we are a noble race and that chains and bounds have no part in us
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.
Romantic Ireland's dead and gone
It's with O' Leary in the grave
(September 1913)
Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the 'Kazee' is not.
My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.
I was born Katie O'Reilly," she began. "Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels." Titanic Rhapsody
I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still so curious about the bigger world. It's grand to be alive in a time when mobility is so accessible.
The problem with being Irish ... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
Ah, Ireland ... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.
What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen.
My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.
As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.