Funny Irish Sayings And Quotes

by allinspiration.com

“At Leeds I’ve tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.”
– Robbie Keane

“Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn’t Colin Farrell – he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it.”
– Robert Towne

“I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.”
– Robert Vaughn

“The problem with being Irish… is having ‘Riverdance’ on your back. It’s a burden at times.”
– Roddy Doyle

“When I was a kid, if you didn’t speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn’t pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don’t think that’s the case anymore. Although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.”
– Roddy Doyle

“I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I’m the only Irish person who can’t carry a tune.”
– Roma Downey

“I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots… I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.”
– Rory McIlroy

“I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.”
– Rory McIlroy

“I’ve had support from all sides, from people who call themselves Irish, from Northern Irish, to the whole of the UK, to people in America, and it would be terrible for me to segregate myself from one of those groups that support me so much.”
– Rory McIlroy

“The fact is, I’ve always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don’t know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.”
– Rory McIlroy

“In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.”
– Samuel Butler

“I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.”
– Sandra Bullock

“The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.”
– Seamus Heaney

“The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.”
– Sean Connery

“I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.”
– Shay Mitchell

“I grew up in Manchester in a big Irish family – there are seven of us in all – so my life has always been about role-playing, about doing anything for a laugh. I’m always joking about; that’s the way I am.”
– Shayne Ward

“I think the world’s a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors – not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We’re all up for grabs.”
– Sonya Walger

“For a man to come right out and say he does not believe in the Old Testament, I think many Catholics across the nation as well as the world are offended by Bill O’Reilly claiming he’s an Irish Catholic.”
– Stephen Bennett

“Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil’s first movie and my first movie.”
– Stephen Rea

“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.”
– Stephen Rea

“Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.”
– Terry Eagleton

“There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.”
– Terry Eagleton

“The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.”
– Thomas Francis Meagher

“Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.”
– Thomas Mellon

“I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It’s about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me.”
– Tom Berenger

“Ninety percent I’ll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I’ll probably waste.”
– Tug McGraw

“I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn’t there before that.”
– Van Morrison

“I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.”
– Virginia Madsen

“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.”
– Vivien Leigh

“Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you’re different in a society, you’re funny.”
– Will Eisner

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
– William Butler Yeats

“Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.”
– William Butler Yeats

“If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.”
– William Howard Taft

“A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.”
– William Nicholson

“Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don’t know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother’s side.”
– William Wiley

“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.”
– Winston Churchill

“Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I’m Irish. Go figure.”
– Yancy Butler

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