When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up.
Colm Toibin
TimeThoughtYouIrishUpMiddle
I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.
Dan Savage
PeopleHouseNeverIrishAnything
My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.
Clare Bowen
FamilyBeautifulGrandfatherIrish
I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.
Brendan Gleeson
MusicCountryIrishOldYearsFound
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
Anne Enright
PeopleThinkYouSayTrueIrish
A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.
William Nicholson
IrishSurgeonPlasticWhateverBeen
Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
Preston Sturges
FamilyImmigrantsPoorIrishObscure
The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.
Pete Hamill
IrishStartedJewsItaliansUntil
The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.
Sean Connery
FireMoreIrishSeemThanAbout
Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.
Tobias Hill
BestPeopleLookingIrishGoneOur
I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both.
Martin McDonagh
MyselfFeelWayIrishDefendBeing
World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.
Martin McGuinness
HistoryWarPeopleWorldLostIrish
I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker.
Lenny Abrahamson
I AmImpossibleIrishUpFilmmaker
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
LoveDaySchoolLovedIrishNames
I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.
James Nesbitt
WorstIrishMustAccentsSomeHeard
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
MoneyJobPeopleLawYouIrish
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