Irish Quotes

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

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.

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.

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.

I'm just a loud Irish guy.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

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 own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.