#iris

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#big #big thing #chicago #growing #growing up

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian. ↗

— Rory Bremner

#age #comedian #i #intellectually #just

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#devise #irish #nation #now #old

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#figure #go #i #irish #name

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#completely #dishes #endure #friends #historical

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#ireland #irish #know #like #rock

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.' ↗

— Carson Daly

#attitude #come #figure #get #hope

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#anybody #being #bricklayer #else #greater

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. ↗

— J. P. Donleavy

#look #marry #poverty

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#being #burden #having #irish #problem