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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information. Kate Adie

Gone Prohibit Members Instance Contact Always IRA Question Governments Ireland Irish Northern Northern Ireland Information Media Believing Right British

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings. Kate Thompson

Gorgeous Wings Mythology Misrepresented Fairies Very Irish Little Creatures

My dad's Irish, so I was visiting Ireland a lot as a kid, so it's not totally foreign to me. Katherine Ryan

Me Kid Visiting Totally Foreign Lot Ireland Irish Dad

I look Italian, but I act Irish. Ken Cuccinelli

Look Italian Irish Act

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be. Kenneth Branagh

Love Language Fire Way Visceral Would Some Shakespeare More Through Part Feel Freer Am Cultural Irish Than Repository Current Being Mean Planet Shot English Why Utterly Elite Resist British

I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.' Kevin Barry

Freelance Cork Pieces Also Wrote Around Years Irish Times

Irish writing is so strong that it can feel like the country has all been covered, but in fact, there are so many gaps. The small west of Ireland cities and the working classes there have almost never appeared in Irish literature, simply because those communities were never in the way of producing books. Kevin Barry

Writing Strong Country Books Way Those Cities Classes Small Fact Never Simply Almost Feel Like Because Were Been Covered West Ireland Irish In Fact Literature Working Producing Working Classes Communities Many Appeared Gaps

I gotta lot of Black Irish in me. Kevin Dillon

Me Black Gotta Lot Irish

Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible. Lady Gregory

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I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman. Lady Gregory

Winter School Parents Beginning Baby Drama Back Punch Tell Feast Hyde Delighted Had Put Miss Policeman Judy Irish Modern Children Curses Hold Grand Acted Show Douglas

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed! Lady Gregory

In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance. Lady Gregory

I was born in Vietnam, and I was adopted by an Irish lady and a Hungarian man, and then I moved to America. Lana Condor

Man Hungarian Born Adopted Irish America Moved Lady Then Vietnam

I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl. Lara Flynn Boyle

Time Girl Young Skin Had Irish Young Girl

Throughout my childhood, I did a form of Irish dancing that was kind of the precursor to 'Riverdance.' It was a mixture of ballet and Irish dancing that my teacher, Patricia Mulholland, had invented, essentially. It was Irish ballet, and she would create performances based around the myths and legends of Ireland. Laura Donnelly

Teacher Dancing Kind Would Invented Throughout Had Myths Performance She Around Ballet Mixture Ireland Irish Did Legends Childhood Precursor Essentially Form Create Based

The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight. Laurie R. King

Dog Rather Had Spoils Irish Person Anything Lesser Now Last

I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, 'You can be both.' Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me. Lenny Abrahamson

Myself Me You Remember Feeling Before Pleased Kid Both Like Said Very Irish Being Little Asked Jewish

The title, the name Frank, comes from this extraordinary British character Frank Friedbottom. He was very big in Britain in the '80s, but I, as an Irish kid, saw him on 'Top of the Charts.' Lenny Abrahamson

Character Big Extraordinary Saw Top Frank Kid Charts He Name Him Very Irish Title Britain British

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. Leon Uris

Struggle Marine Corps Corps Drawn Inspiration Israel Irish Palestine Jewish Marine

Many of the Victorian and Edwardian activists who campaigned for Irish home rule, for instance, also wanted what they called 'home rule all round': separate parliaments not simply for Ireland but also for the Scots and the Welsh - and for the English. Linda Colley

Home Rule Instance Simply Also Welsh Edwardian Ireland Irish Wanted Victorian Separate English Who Many Activists Round

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