Funny Irish Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.”
– Cyril Cusack

“I own a lot of my house, because I’m Irish and from people who never owned anything.”
– Dan Savage

“I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I’m English.”
– Daniel Radcliffe

“My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.”
– David Johansen

“I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.”
– Dennis Lehane

“Sometimes the archaism of the language when it’s spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.”
– Diane Wakoski

“The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.”
– Dick Spring

“My dad‘s Irish music was such a huge influence.”
– Dido Armstrong

“It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.”
– Douglas Hyde

“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.”
– Eddie Murphy

“I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.”
– Edmund Barton

“I’m an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.”
– Edna O’Brien

“My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.”
– Ellen Pompeo

“Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.”
– Fiona Shaw

“A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.”
– Fiona Shaw

“Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.”
– Fiona Shaw

“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

“There’s something about the Irish that is remarkable.”
– Fiona Shaw

“To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.”
– Fiona Shaw

“The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.”
– Flann O’Brien

“One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket.”
– Frank Stallone

“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

“My mother’s family were full-on Irish Catholics – faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women‘s rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.”
– Geraldine Brooks

“But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda – no-one else is going to do that.”
– Gerry Adams

“In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.”
– Gerry Adams

“The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.”
– Gerry Adams

“When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.”
– Gerry Adams

“I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.”
– Gerry Cooney

“I cannot shy away from controversy. I don’t know if it’s my Irish blood, but I love it.”
– Gina McCarthy

“In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy – you can be arrested for it. It’s risky asking people for money in public. So it’s not like it’s a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.”
– Glen Hansard

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