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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
I've been canyoning, snorkelled a shipwreck, and learnt to Irish dance, all in the same week.
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
There's a certain kind of guy, a certain kind of humor, that goes with Irish cops and firemen.
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.
I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.
I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.
My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.
I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.
I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.
I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'
I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
I made loads of English and Irish friends at university and all they wanted to do was have a good time.
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.
I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.
Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.
I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP.
For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.
Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man.
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
I am an Irish Catholic person. I've been a man and a woman. I speak Russian, sort of. And then I'm very diplomatic.
I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
My mom is Irish. She is a poet and a humanitarian who believed in ensuring that people around her had a better life.
It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.
My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
U2 and Sinead O'Connor - I haven't a clue why we're compared to them. Apart from us all being Irish, we've nothing in common.
I love flying the flag for Irish designers like Joanne Hynes, Simone Rocha, Natalie B Coleman, Lennon Courtney and Helen Steele.
I think it's an Irish thing. We don't really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.
I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think certain things are bred into you.
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.
I wasn't embraced as an Irish artist back in the Moloko days. Modern electronica isn't what you think of when you think of Irish music.
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.
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.
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.
The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.