Irish Quotes

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.