Funny Irish Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don’t consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.”
– John Cusack

“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.”
– John Edward Redmond

“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.”
– John Hume

“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 My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.”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

“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.”
– John Major

“I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.”
– John McCormack

“Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.”
– John McGahern

“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.”
– John McGahern

“The way I see it is that all the ol’ guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn’t be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn’t be Chinese or Japanese.”
– John McGahern

“There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.”
– John Millington Synge

“The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain’s, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.”
– John Redwood

“I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he’s Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I’m a bunch of different things, Irish, Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that’s what I did.”
– JoJo

“Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.”
– Josiah Strong

“On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.”
– Kate Adie

“I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it’s rainy and cloudy. It’s just genetic.”
– Kate Flannery

“My mother is Italian and my dad‘s Irish. In my family, we’re expressive. Nobody holds back.”
– Kate Walsh

“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.”
– Kenneth Branagh

“I’ve got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it’s a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.”
– Kevin Kline

“I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl’s private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.”
– Kitty Kelley

“Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.”
– Lara Flynn Boyle

“I’ve had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.”
– Lara Flynn Boyle

“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?”
– Lara Flynn Boyle

“My mother – the Irish side of the family – was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.”
– Len Cariou

“I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.”
– Leon Uris

“But let’s just say, I’m Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.”
– Liam Neeson

“For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don’t make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you’re told you’re too tall or you’re too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You’re rejected for your education, you’re rejected for this or that and it’s really tough.”
– Liam Neeson

“I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the ’70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don’t want to sing in front of anybody.”
– Liam Neeson

“I’m Irish, so I’m used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I’ll call it dinner.”
– Liam Neeson

“The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.”
– Liam Neeson

“I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you’re going to be an Irish writer.”
– Maeve Binchy

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