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
HistoryGenerationViewIrishNext
I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.
Colm Meaney
HistoryKindIrishInterestUsLean
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Edna O'Brien
GuiltLongIrishIcebergCatholic
I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.
Brian Dennehy
FamilyDNAIrishSaint Patrick's Day
I'm from an Irish Catholic family.
Bonnie Hunt
FamilyIrishCatholicIrish Catholic
I'm very aware of my own background. I'm Irish, French, and then a little bit of everything else thrown in, ranging from German to Native American. We're talking about tiny drops of blood.
Anne Hathaway
AmericanTalkingBloodMy OwnIrish
I am very proud to be Irish.
Philip Treacy
I AmProudIrishVeryAm
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.
Phil Donahue
ParentsBoyBecomeImpressIrish
Cursing is heavily used in the Irish language. It's not a stretch for me, and I have no qualms about it. It doesn't fall far from the real me.
Paula Malcomson
MeLanguageFallIrishRealCursing
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
Seamus Heaney
NowIrishImagineIrelandHelped
Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun.
Norman Reedus
AngryYouIrishSoundLikeYelling
If Britain votes to leave the European Union, then that could have huge implications for the entire island of Ireland and, given all the predictions, would run counter to the democratic wishes of the Irish people.
Martin McGuinness
PeopleWishesIslandRunIrish
I have three older brothers. I'm Irish. I'm feisty.
Martha McSally
ThreeIrishOlderBrothersFeisty
The title, the name Frank, comes from this extraordinary British character Frank Friedbottom. He was very big in Britain in the '80s, but I, as an Irish kid, saw him on 'Top of the Charts.'
Lenny Abrahamson
CharacterNameIrishTopKidHim
I'm actually more German than Scottish. I'm half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Scottish, and 12 percent Irish.
Kimiko Glenn
MoreIrishScottishPercentThan
As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'
James Nesbitt
IrishConfessionOnlyInterviews
I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.
Gina McCarthy
LoveKnowBloodShyIrishAway
For my last meal, I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.
Erin O'Connor
BreakfastBreadThreeWantIrish
I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.
Dylan Moran
IrishNeedUpGetAboutYeah
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats
JoyTragedyIrishHimThroughSense
Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck made me an Anglophile. I listened to English and Irish artists as a kid, and they were way louder, heavier, and faster than the traditional blues that I was listening to.
Joe Bonamassa
MeListeningBluesWayIrishKid
I love the fact that Inuit poetry may resonate with me as much as Irish.
Paul Muldoon
LovePoetryMeIrishMayFact
I've always been fascinated with Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, having lived in London in the '80s when there was an Irish republican bombing campaign there.
John Gordon Sinclair
LondonIrishRepublicanAlwaysLived
Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.
Kate Thompson
WingsIrishFairiesLittleGorgeous
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