306 Irish Quotes for You to Enjoy

I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish. Adelaide Kane

Mother Father Half Side Bit Glasgow French Am Irish Scottish

Northern Irish people tend to have this sharp, dark sense of humour. Aisling Bea

People Dark Sense Humour Tend Sharp Irish Irish People Northern

Songs with simple lyrics really take off in Irish nightclubs. Aisling Bea

Simple Lyrics Take Songs Off Irish Really Nightclubs

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters. Alice Hamilton

Me Impossible Seen Believe Our Worse Those Section Some Could Had Polish Foreign Quarters Were Italian Conditions Chicago Irish Than Any Europe Many Workshops

I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.' Alice McDermott

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I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings. Amanda Hale

I was a lonely child. My brother Tony and I were never very close, neither as children nor as adults, but I was tightly bound to him. We were forced to be together because we were really quite alone. We were in the middle of the Irish countryside, in County Galway, in the West of Ireland, and we didn't see many other kids. Anjelica Huston

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Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday I'll end up living there. When I've established myself in America and I don't need to live near the action, so to speak, and if you're good, the work will come to you. I feel very Irish; maybe that's why I've been so lucky with my career. Anne Hathaway

Work Myself Good You Speak Amazing Will Country Action Live Living Back Dream Someday Head Feel Come Been End Up Ireland Very Irish America Maybe Established Little Lucky Why Near Career Need

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible. Anne McCaffrey

Love Words Will Living Changed Say Possible Since Ireland Irish Them Sentence Use Fullness Many Speech

In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate. Austin Clarke

Silence Mind Will Country State Our Feared Poetry Boundless New Contemplate Days Picturesque Leaves Materialistic Loss Yeats Irish Task Where Which Painful Less Avoided Activity Harder