306 Irish Quotes for You to Enjoy

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old. Geraldine Brooks

Faith Family Justice Rights Women Conservative Mother Old Style Tribe Out Madly Highly Over Fell Sort Catholics Issues Were Years Irish Just Elaborate Social Social Justice Full-On Baroque Old-Fashioned

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. Gerry Adams

Prevail Peace Else Secured No-One Concluded Irish Sovereignty Going Process Republicans Agenda Then Successfully Peace Process Set

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership. Gerry Adams

Leadership Army Commitment Made Every Irish Republican Kept

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym. Gerry Cooney

Work Time Home Family Me Opportunity Big Gave Spend Way Out Some Pretty Brothers Guy Gym He Him Catholic Go His His Way Left Up Irish Irish Catholic Grew Work Out Rough Dad Found

I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it. Gina McCarthy

Love Know Blood Irish Controversy Cannot Away Shy

In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money. Glen Hansard

You People Money Law Job Considered Risky Like Make Arrested Very Irish Public Little Asking Little Money Who

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history? Goldwin Smith

Character History Differences Doubt Between French Course Still Affect Affected Irish Scotch Which English Who Profoundly

There are not many Irish people playing tennis! Goran Ivanisevic

People Tennis Irish Irish People Many Playing

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish. Graham Coxon

Remember Think London Pretty Similar More Welsh Leeds Irish Than Bands American Manchester Anytime Whether English Now

Growing up with Bronx Irish parents during an era of protests against the status quo, I was especially committed to doing the opposite of what I was told to do. Forty-four years later, I am left with only one means of making a living: comedy. Greg Fitzsimmons

Comedy Parents Living Later Bronx Status Status Quo Only Protests Making Am Making A Living Era Doing Opposite Years Left Up Irish Committed Quo Against Means Growing Growing Up

When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.' Hari Kondabolu

You College White Heritage Say Give Well Equation Welsh Math Cultural Friends German Irish American Just Native Native American Ask Your Applications Fourth Third

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill. Harold Nicolson

Enemies Wish Everyone Well Irish Want Anyone Them Ill

This first-generation narrative keeps happening over and over and over again, whether it was Irish or Jewish or our community, South Asians, Japanese-Americans, Mexican-Americans. We've all gone through this sort of bridge, and it will continue to happen. Hasan Minhaj

I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully. Hozier

I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs. Hozier

Love Music Folk Folk Music Folk Songs Songs Lot Irish

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right. Ian Mcewan

Politics You Problems Trouble Energy Every Severe Tell Cities Kind Constant London Pretty Attack Had Catastrophic Between Polarized Industrial Terrorist Terrorist Attack Were Campaign Dump Left Irish English Who Groups Bombing Right Started

The gun is not out of Irish politics. Ian Paisley

Politics Gun Out Irish

American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second. Imelda May

Great You Brilliant Will Band Tops Tell Open Come Audience Am Audiences Doing Very Irish Close Get American American Audiences Just Spanish Nowhere Second

Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine. Imelda May

Love Music You Related Countries Combine Over Came Rockabilly Hear Hand Ireland Very Irish America Closely Bluegrass Different Different Countries

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