#irish

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

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date. ↗

— John Hume

#believed #britain #date #defending #had

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report. ↗

— Dick Spring

#british #british government #clearly #government #irish

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

— Lara Flynn Boyle

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

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

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#although #any #anymore #attention #because

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#check #even #genealogy #going #got

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#could #english #here #how #irish

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead. ↗

— John C. Hawkes

#before #died #father #homestead #i