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An Irishman talks best when there is competition. By Mary Doyle Curran Irishman Competition Talks

I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go. By Peter Riegert Guinness Irish Make Bread Soda

The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads. By Roddy Doyle Lads Europe Irish Niggers

I'm still a proud Irishman, of course, but I've become an American citizen. I'm very, very proud of that. By Liam Neeson Irishman American Citizen Proud

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it. By Conor Cruise O'brien Irish Irishness Language Situation Primarily

Irish improves a poet. By Sina Queyras Irish Poet Improves

I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know? By Rebecca Mader Irish Charm Red Hair Lucky

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination By George Bernard Shaw Irishman Imagination Heart

Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter. By Clinton Morrison Ideally Irishman Job Matter Coming

All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish. By Tyson Fury Ireland Manchester Irish People Born

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. By Shane Leslie Irishman Patrick Day Find Make

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry? By John Ford Indians Irishman Cavalry Understand Stirred

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact. By Alex Haley Irish Soul Fact Feel Save

There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find? By Natalie Dormer Irishmen Find Real Mischievousness

Do you have a name I asked?" I asked."Yes." He stared back at me, blinking."What is it?""Clover." He looked away and typed something into the computer. His mouth kept twitching, like he was trying to hold in laughter."Seriously?"He pushed his sleeve up, giving me a view of a blue clover tattooed on his forearm. "I'm half Irish."And half shithead. By Tara Kelly Asked Clover Half Blinking Irish

I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker. By Lenny Abrahamson Irish Ireland Filmmaker Grew Impossible

An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets. By George Bernard Shaw Irishman Agreeable Strangers Woman Streets

I'm Irish, I'm from New York, and I definitely have issues. By Dean Winters Irish York Issues

There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age. By Elizabeth Berg Irishmen Women Men Kinds Understand

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile. By James Joyce Silence Cunnning Irishman Things Exile

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. By Douglas Hyde Irishmen Institutions Irish Disgraceful Shame

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this. By Anne Enright Irish Thing Find Wearing Construction

Wow you need to get some sun.""Shut up. I'm Irish. By Kevin Hearne Shut Wow Sun Irish

When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove. By James Joyce Irishman Ireland Environment Man Found

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over. By Brigid Brophy Irish Tongue Word Tip Imperialist

St. Patrick ... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish. By Charles Madigan Patrick Irish Saints Feast Day

TWO THINGS STRIKE every Irish person when he comes to America, Irish friends tell me: the vastness of the country, and the seemingly endless desire of its people to talk about their personal problems. Two things strike an American when he comes to Ireland: how small it is, and how tight-lipped. An Irish person with a personal problem takes it into a hole with him, like a squirrel with a nut before winter. He tortures himself and sometimes his loved ones, too. What he doesn't do, if he has suffered some reversal, is vent about it to the outside world. The famous Irish gift of gab is a cover for all the things they aren't telling you. By Michael Lewis America Irish Things Strike Country

Lot of Irish in Mexico. The Mexican name, Obregon? It comes from O'Brien. By John Sandford Mexico Obregon Irish Lot Mexican

I'm still a scarred and surly Irishman. By Kresley Cole Irishman Scarred Surly

The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears. By Theodore Dreiser Irish Race Philosophic Practical Wears

You are a different kind of Irishman, Goll," was all she said."Every Irishman is a different kind of Irishman," said Goll. By Charles Brady Goll Irishman Kind Said

[on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass. By M. Edward Mcnally Irish Wordsmiths Ass Race Poets

A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats. By L.m. Montgomery Irishman Proper Lady Petticoats Ruin

British. My mother By A. P. J. Abdul Kalam British Mother

It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish. By James Joyce Irish Expresses Care Banality Man

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart. By Daniel Patrick Moynihan Irish Heart End World Break

I don't hold it against you that you turned out Irish, either. I wasn't there to make Englishmen of you, and so it's Irish you are, by default. By Neal Stephenson Irish Hold Turned Englishmen Default

There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears? By Leon Uris Larkin Curse Ronan Back Kilty

The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeletonParnellnever a man. By James Joyce Irish Leaders People Great Moment

What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick? By Billy Conn Irish Thick

Cause I'm Irish, and everyone remembers me. By Niall Horan Irish Remembers

Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous. By Edna O'brien Irish Truth Country Nationalities Pleasure

If you ask an Irishman for directions, he might be quick to answer, Well if I were going there, I would not start here. By Steve Stockman Irishman Directions Answer Quick Start

What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart? By John F. Kennedy Irish Heart World Break

Everyone wants to marry and Irish girl, they have the most beautiful babies. By Don J. Snyder Irish Girl Babies Marry Beautiful

Being Irish, I always had this love of words. By Kenneth Branagh Irish Words Love

The behaviour of the English people I had run into was making it very difficult to nail down a theory that the reason my trip so far had been such a bizarre success, was that Irish people were crazy. One Englishman had spent a morning on the telephone trying to organise a helicopter to take me out to an island, when a boat was leaving only a few yards away, and here was another, making a two-hour round trip for no reason other than to lend a helping hand. Two of the more eccentric pieces of behaviour hadn't been performed by the Irish, but by my fellow countrymen. However, both Andy and Tony had embraced wholeheartedly a love of the Irish way of living life. By Tony Hawks People English Irish Making Reason

A driver had been sent to meet us. He was gray-haired, short, and nimble and introduced himself. I am Patrick and so is every fourth man in Ireland, and the ones in between are named Sean or Mick or Finn, and I'll be driving you. By Sharon Creech Driver Meet Short Ireland Finn

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable. By Fiona Shaw Irish Remarkable

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely. By Marian Keyes Irishness Growing Despised America Britain

An Irishman's wife gave birth to twins. Her husband wanted to know who the other man was. By Frank Carson Irishman Twins Wife Gave Birth

I know Irish-American people. I know what their homes look like. I know what they have for dinner. I know how they turn a phrase. By Alice Mcdermott People Irishamerican Homes Dinner Phrase

Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the 'Kazee' is not. By Steve Kazee Irish Kazee Threequarters Family

To be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty. By Virginia Henley Irish Thirty World Break Heart

When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step. By Gerald Kersh Irish Smiling Watch Step Eyes

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. By James Joyce Ireland Stiff Sober

Irish has not so much a common formula as a common character. By Lew Bryson Common Irish Character Formula

I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'. By S.a. Tawks Australian Sheilas Guy Figured Fair

I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland. If I have a duty I will perform it to the full with the unshakable belief that we are a noble race and that chains and bounds have no part in us By Francis Hughes Irish Ireland Prouder Boast Privileged

Oh sod me, Sir, not another bloody Paddy. Even a Brummie is better than another Paddy. By Jim Mcgrath Sir Paddy Sod Bloody Brummie

The bearded man lit his cigarette. "I'm a leprechaun," he said. Shadow did not smile. "Really?" he said. "Shouldn't you be drinking Guinness?" "Stereotypes. You have to learn to think outside the box," said the bearded man. "There's a lot more to Ireland than Guinness." "You don't have an Irish accent." "I've been over here too fucken long." "So you are originally from Ireland?" "I told you. I'm a leprechaun. We don't come from fucken Moscow. By Neil Gaiman Guinness Cigarette Lit Ireland Bearded

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish. By Dominic West Ireland Americanirish Mum Parents Dad

We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures. By Katherine Cecil Thurston Irish Dreamers Failures Born Wake

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. By Robert Vaughn Catholics Irish Long Line Staunch

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

Just try and think of me as an Irish Batman, and you'll be all right. By C.m. Stunich Batman Irish

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish." By Carl Andre Irish House Grew Englishman England

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one. By James Joyce Irish Nationalist Programme Insist Language

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish! By Iris Murdoch Ireland Vile Scot Irish Bloody

You mustn't touch me." Very slowly, he lowered his hand. "You need to be touched, Caitlin MacBride. You need it very badly." She girded herself with denial. "Even if it were so, I would not need it from an Englishman." "Think again, my love. We're easy with one another despite our differences. Remember our first meeting - the shock of it, the knowing? We could be good for each other." "And when, pray, has an Englishman ever been good for Ireland?" A lazy grin spread over his face. "Even I know that, Caitlin. St. Patrick himself was English born, was he not?" "But he had the heart of Eireann." "So might I, Caitlin MacBride. So might I. By Susan Wiggs Caitlin Englishman Touch Macbride Good

The smell of the earth, so astoundingly fresh: it strikes Brown like a thing he might eat. His ears throb. His body feels as if it is still moving through the air. He is, he thinks, the first man ever to fly and stand at the exact same time. The war out of the machine. He holds the small bag of letters up in salute. On they come, soldiers, people, the light drizzle of gray. Ireland. A beautiful country. A bit savage on a man all the same. Ireland. By Colum Mccann Brown Earth Fresh Eat Smell

What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen. By Peter Ackroyd Jews Irish Exile Captivity Irishmen

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? By Carroll O'connor Irish Derivation

It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again. By Joseph O'neill Irishman Involved Ship Singing Lots

And he was more Irish in America than he'd ever been at home. By Rachel Cusk Irish America Home

Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging. By Tom Paulin Irish Occasions Whiteness Attachments Surfaces

Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had enough. By Leon Uris Man Larkin Conor Irishman

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. By Norman Mailer Irish World Men Cry Dirty

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart. By Thomas Adcock Irish Heart Sense World Break

A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn't. By Kate Atkinson Irish Man Accent Sound Wise

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. By George Bernard Shaw Irishman Imagination Heart

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards. By Austin O'malley Irishman Englishmen Frenchmen American Seated

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil. By Mary Roberts Rinehart Irish Strange Race Devil

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. By John Patrick Shanley Kelly Shanley Irish Hell Side

I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. By Peter O'toole Irish Catholic Christian Truth Retired

I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go. By Philip Treacy Irish Irishness Century Design Representative

I'm Irish. We think sideways By Spike Milligan Irish Sideways

Do you have a distaste for the Irish?" Jack asked, staring steadily into her eyes."Oh, no," she said dazedly. "I was just thinking... that must be why your hair is so black and your eyes so blue.""A chuisle mo chroi," he murmured, stroking the curls back from her round face."What does that mean?""Someday. I'll tell you. Someday. By Lisa Kleypas Irish Someday Distaste Jack Asked

Being an Irishwoman means many things to me. An Irishwoman is strong and feisty. She has guts and stands up for what she believes in. She believes she is the best at whatever she does and proceeds through life with that knowledge. She can face any hazard that life throws her way and stay with it until she wins. She is loyal to her kinsmen and accepting of others. She's not above a sock in the jaw if you have it coming. By Maureen O'hara Irishwoman Things Life Feisty Strong

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman. By John Bright Catholic Protestant Episcopalian Presbyterian Irishman

I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others. By Stewart Stafford Irish Drink Refuse Stereotype Live

Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions. By Gustave De Beaumont Ireland Questions Country Raises Great

Being Irish means you belong to the clan. It's what you feel. They feel Irish. By Martin Naughton Irish Clan Belong Feel

Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns. By James Connolly Irish Erin Hid Flags Towns

Irish and Italian are my two favourite people. By Paul Haggis Italian Irish People Favourite

Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close ... that, supposedly, I won't suspect.Hagen: Somebody like me.Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you.Hagen: I'm German-American.Michael: To them that's Irish. By Mario Puzo Irish Michael Supposedly Barzini Close

I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor. By Harrison Ford Irish Jewish Person Actor Feel

Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. By Norman Reedus Irish Leprechaun Yelling Sound Angry

We come bulletproof in Ireland. We're reared tough, and we fight. By Conor Mcgregor Ireland Bulletproof Tough Fight Reared

I have lived in Ireland, visited all my life, and when I fight, I represent Ireland. By Tyson Fury Ireland Visited Life Fight Lived