306 Irish Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day. Tamara Tunie

Day Every Day Every Columbus New Italian Irish Yorker New Yorker

Patrick Pearse - who set the events of 1916 in motion when he read the Proclamation of the Irish Republic from the steps of the General Post Office in Dublin - is not exactly an unfamiliar name to the Miramichi Irish. Terry Glavin

Events Post Post Office Exactly General He Steps Name Read Dublin Motion Irish Office Unfamiliar Republic Proclamation Who Set

People make mistakes in life. You shouldn't have to live with that for the rest of your life. I believe in redemption. I'm an Irish Catholic, and I just think it's the right thing to do. Terry McAuliffe

Life You People Rest Mistakes Live Believe Think Right Thing Make Catholic Redemption Irish Irish Catholic Just The Right Thing Your Right Thing

I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it. Terry Wogan

You Youth Guilt Long Nothing State Spent Pleasure Constant Entire Take Sin Over Catholic Learned Sins Irish Irish Catholic Imaginary

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. Thomas Mellon

Nature Long Extract Virus Thoroughly Unable Civilization Perfectly Were Cultivated Been Irish Irrationality Modern Modern Civilization Ingrained Among Violence

I saw my mother crying for the first time, which made a huge impression on me, when I came home from kindergarten, and she was watching TV because JFK - that Irish Catholic president that we loved - had been killed. Tim Kaine

Time Home Me Mother Made First President Saw TV Kindergarten Had Crying She Catholic Because First Time Came Been Huge Impression Irish Irish Catholic Loved Which Watching Watching Tv

I am Irish, so I do like a good fight every now and then. Tim Ryan

Good Fight Every Like Am Irish Then Now Now And Then

I'm from Salford, and I don't have any immediate Irish connection. Tom Glynn-Carney

Immediate Irish Any Connection

'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic. Tom Paulin

Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they recognise that many people believe in a form of racial purity. And it is from that belief that prejudice starts. Tom Paulin

People Black Believe Heritage Starts Say Recognise Purity Part Know Proud Irish Form Racial Prejudice Grandparent Many Belief

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down. Tracey Ullman

Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions. Tyson Fury

Music Brought Around Traditions Up Irish Growing Growing Up

'The Irish Duke' is a sequel to 'The Decadent Duke' about Lady Georgina Gordon who married the Duke of Bedford. 'The Irish Duke' tells the story of their daughter, Lady Louisa, who married James Hamilton, the powerful and wealthy Duke of Abercorn. Virginia Henley

Daughter Married Tells Wealthy About Powerful Gordon Hamilton Duke Irish Decadent Lady James Story Sequel Who

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side. William T. Wiley

Family Creative Mother Side Prominent See Through Beyond Know Coming Lot Irish Artistic Nationality Influence Really

Irish people never think we're Irish. Americans think we're European or French. Winston Marshall

People Think Never French Irish Irish People American European

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. Yancy Butler

Name Go Irish Figure Actually

Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent. Katie Melua

Speak Before Well Accent Learned Irish Northern English Belfast

A Canada-style deal for the whole of the UK results in a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. For that reason, it has never been acceptable to the EU without a permanent hard border down the Irish Sea. David Gauke

I've been really inspired by my roots - my ancestors and Irish history. Kate Nash

History Ancestors Inspired Been Irish Really Roots

In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then have cursed Ireland for nine tenths of a century, will be repealed. John Boyle O'Reilly

Will Stage Predict Nine Nine-Tenths Shall Arrived Question Ireland Irish Legislative Cursed Which Century Then England Union

My mom was a single mother. She had six siblings in a big Irish family, all descended from shanty Irish folks who arrived after the Famine. They settled along the Cuyahoga River. It's the river that caught on fire. We're real good at picking real estate. Rory O'Malley

Good Mom Family Mother Real Estate Fire Single Big Settled Folks River Had Picking Along She Single Mother Caught Real Arrived Irish Six Famine Estate After Who Descended Sibling

Most actors here go to the West Coast; I ended up going to Ireland. My buddies who left drama school, they had this arrogance - 'We don't want to typecast ourselves.' But I said, 'I want to do Irish parts. That's the thing that's gonna give me the leg up.' Brian F. O'Byrne

Me Arrogance School Drama Drama School Typecast Ourselves Give Give Me Had Buddies Most Parts Said Go West West Coast Left Up Ireland Irish Leg Ended Going Want Gonna Coast Who Actor Thing Here

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