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You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous. -- Bonnie Tyler
The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots. -- Sean Connery
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We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. -- Winston Churchill
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. -- Fiona Shaw
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. -- Seamus Heaney
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. -- Colin Farrell
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. -- Brendan Behan
Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man. -- Conor McGregor
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. -- Iris Murdoch
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either. -- James Callaghan
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I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. -- Colin Firth
Irish improves a poet. -- Sina Queyras
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I'm just an Irish biddy. -- Judy Garland
I'm Irish. We think sideways -- Spike Milligan
[I'm] more German than Irish. -- Bill Burr
Irish is a leprechaun language. -- Sammy Wilson
Hang Irish harpers wherever found. -- Elizabeth I
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Religion dies hard in the Irish. -- Katharine Tynan
I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish. -- Marianne Moore
My name means freedom [in Irish]. -- Saoirse Ronan
Cause I'm Irish, and everyone remembers me. -- Niall Horan
You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy. -- Cillian Murphy
Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges -- Judy Collins
The gun is not out of Irish politics. -- Ian Paisley
There are not many Irish people playing tennis! -- Goran Ivanisevic
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture... -- Michael Flatley
There's something about the Irish that is remarkable. -- Fiona Shaw
I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. -- Lynn Collins
I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. -- Colin Farrell
When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step. -- Gerald Kersh
Do you think anybody knows that I'm Irish? -- Niall Horan
I'm Irish, for gods sake. I'm a romantic. -- Pierce Brosnan
I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid. -- Joe Biden
The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads. -- Roddy Doyle
I have three older brothers. I'm Irish. I'm feisty. -- Martha McSally
Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable . . . unimaginable . . . unspeakable. -- Paul Keating
Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. -- Norman Reedus
The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows. -- Thomas Keneally
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. -- Maria Edgeworth
We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely. -- Caroline Corr
My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. -- Dido Armstrong
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. -- J.P. Donleavy
I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. -- Jack Nicholson
Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through. -- Erin Andrews
The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears. -- Katharine Tynan
The Irish Six Million Dollar man only cost three quid. -- Frank Carson
The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting. -- Mary Deasy
That's right, there's free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone's jealous. -- Kevin Hearne
I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish. -- Mary McCormack
I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. -- Robert Vaughn
There is Irish Spring, but there is no fall soap. -- Jerry Mooney
The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs. -- Bernadette Devlin
Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. -- Fiona Shaw
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. -- Bob Geldof
Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. -- Yancy Butler
My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish. -- Dominic West
My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music, -- Enya
I miss Irish milk. Probably not as much as Superquinn sausages. -- Tristan MacManus
I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood. -- William Devane
You're not falling for me, are you, Irish?" -Adam to Gabrielle -- Karen Marie Moning
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. -- John Millington Synge
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. -- Ed McMahon
I was pretty Irish Catholic Jersey, the middle of the line. -- Ryan McGinley
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I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know. -- Sandra Bullock
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. -- John Lydon
An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral. -- Mary Deasy
Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull. -- Israel Zangwill
Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor. -- Harrison Ford
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess. -- Gregory Peck
What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick? -- Billy Conn
Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at? -- Elizabeth Bowen
Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish. -- Frank Carson
like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone. -- Jennifer Stone
The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out. -- Jack Charlton
I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. -- James Nesbitt
The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership. -- Gerry Adams
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish. -- Oliver St. John
There's trouble in every house, and some in the street.--Irish Proverb -- Dorien Kelly
My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese. -- Tom Shadyac
When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school. -- Deepak Chopra
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. -- Maria Edgeworth
I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact. -- Alex Haley
Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one. -- Spike Milligan
Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the 'Kazee' is not. -- Steve Kazee
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. -- Brendan Behan
Taste it and you will get a desire for it.--Irish Proverb -- Dorien Kelly
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Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish. -- Robert E. Howard
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. -- Alice Walker
God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world. -- Kinky Friedman
Bullshit, as you Americans say. He's Irish. The Irish say bullshit too. -- Kevin Hearne
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl. -- Lara Flynn Boyle
I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. -- Bradley Cooper
We never get over our fathers, and we're not required to. (Irish Proverb) -- Martin Sheen
Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation. -- Robert Peel
I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry. -- Eavan Boland
I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years. -- Nobuo Uematsu
My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology. -- Rosalind Russell
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. -- Brendan Behan
Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ... -- Bernadette Devlin
Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers. -- Marianne Moore
What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart? -- John F. Kennedy
I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school. -- Brigid Brannagh
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. -- Victoria Smurfit
Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago. -- Lara Flynn Boyle
I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's day. I'm lucky sevens. -- Billy Corgan
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another. -- Samuel Johnson
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. -- James Joyce
I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background. -- Jodie Foster
My mother's Cubana/Irish and my dad's Catalan. And that blows my mind. -- Prefuse 73
I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. -- Brian Dennehy
I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats. -- Philip Treacy
Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace.. -- Wolfe Tone
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. -- David Johansen

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