306 Irish Quotes for You to Enjoy

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. Iris Murdoch

You Woman Important Nice Think Everyone Says Take Like Irish Same Being Place Second Second Place

I don't think I related to the Irish Catholic surroundings that was my environment when I was growing up. Isabela Moner

Think Related Environment Catholic Up Surroundings Irish Irish Catholic Growing Growing Up

When I was growing up, for example, everybody on our street was Irish. And all the girls did Irish step dancing. It was pre-Lord of the Dance - it was before anybody knew what gillys were - but we did, and there was such pride among the members of my family and people I grew up with. J. Courtney Sullivan

Family People Pride Dance Girl Example Before Everybody Our Dancing Members Step Knew For Example Were Up Irish Did Anybody Grew Growing Growing Up Among Street

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. J. P. Donleavy

Poverty Marry Look Irish

Law enforcement's biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.' The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans. James Comey

Tough Times Experience Law Soil Black Tough Our Black Americans Had Vehicles Biased Still Prisoners Wagon Irish Times American After Little Enforcement View Use Transport Groups Compares Lives Nickname

Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written about the Irish, the Jews, the Italians, any group you want. James Gray

You Group Starts Jews Latino Immigrants About Only Written Refer Italians Irish Any Want Anyone Them Ignorant Who Need

I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday. Jeannette Walls

Love Music World Black Other Favorites Folk Folk Singer Mary Come Like Baker Also Singer Mostly Irish Listen Holiday To Love Eva Billie Holiday Include Evening World Music Oliver

My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wonky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral. Jo Brand

Love Husband Backgrounds Slightly Spiral Potatoes New Like Go Lot Up Irish Little Them Chips Even Mum

I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish, Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did. JoJo

I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of professional film making while shooting of a number of rock videos. John Carney

My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology. John Collison

Mom School Engineer High Brother Born High School Both County Were Math Very Irish Trained Electrical Dad

There's no such thing as the 'Irish Internet.' It's just the Internet. John Collison

Internet Irish Just Thing

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American. John Cusack

Myself Me Consider Catholic Irish Irish Catholic American Raised

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. John Edward Redmond

Lasted Hundred Hundred Years Solemn Destroyed Carried Fraud Parliament Know Well Force Gentlemen Years Falsehood Irish Five Eighteen After Which Declaration Act Union Treachery Disregarded

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date. John Hume

Argument Own Thinking Type Out Date Had Put Ireland Irish Them Interests Use Therefore Believed Right Violence Britain Defending

I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung. John McCormack

Success Old Long Live Harp Hung Sung Dream Long Career Had Songs Share Days Like Operas Because Concerts Up Irish Which Again Evenings Now Career Night

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. John Oates

You Soul Sort Irish American Native Moves Native American

I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish. John Patrick Shanley

Music Old Father Country Sheep Own Hell Farm Other Side Back Stayed Born Brothers Had He Over Cattle Till Shepherds Been His Surrounded Up Irish Just Being Grew Old Country Away Kelly Early

The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes. John Redwood

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign. Josiah Strong

Nine Our Cities Entire Per Ten Only Contain Principal Foreign German Irish Cent Fifty Population Larger

Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side. Karen Abbott

Great Fire Before Side Took Immigrants City No-One Catherine West West Side Chicago Irish Five Children Notice Who Lived Two

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