#irish

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

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#cry #dirty #how #irish #know

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#another #asked #began #british #chairman

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. ↗

— Van Morrison

#certainly #created #i #i think #industry

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#culture #irish #large #love #part

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever. ↗

— William Nicholson

#irish #just #lad #much #plastic

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#feature #feature film #film #first #irish

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#ambiguity #appalling #book #boy #butcher

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen. ↗

— Moira Kelly

#big #big band #classical #grew #i

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#generation #history #households #irish #like