I felt that the IRA, in the context of Irish history, and Sinn Fein were a legitimate force that had to be recognized, and you wouldn't have peace without them.
Peter T. King
HistoryPeaceYouIrishWithoutIRA
I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.
Shay Mitchell
MomIrishUpNeighborhoodGrewDad
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
Seamus Heaney
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I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.
Richard Widmark
GreatTimeLovedDrunkIrishHim
Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.
Martin McGuinness
DoorIrishOutsideEveryoneLeave
I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.
Lynn Collins
IrishIndianCherokeeFaint
I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.
Ken Bruen
StyleAmericanKnowCrimeIrishTwo
It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
MeChanceEntrepreneurIndiaIrish
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
James Joyce
ArtIrishServantSymbolCracked
The Irish crowd and the humour, they really get it. Them riffing with 'The Room' makes the film watchable for me.
Greg Sestero
MeIrishHumourRoomFilmGet
I've always been fond of my heritage, particularly my Irish heritage. But I'm also from all over the world.
Eugene Simon
WorldHeritageIrishAlwaysOver
I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.
David Harewood
BlackEnvironmentIrishUpKids
'The Irish Duke' is a sequel to 'The Decadent Duke' about Lady Georgina Gordon who married the Duke of Bedford. 'The Irish Duke' tells the story of their daughter, Lady Louisa, who married James Hamilton, the powerful and wealthy Duke of Abercorn.
Virginia Henley
DaughterStoryLadyPowerfulIrish
Inherently in us as Irish people, wherever you are in the world, when you hear an Irish accent, it's like a moth to a flame. There's a real personable pride and camaraderie about being Irish.
Jessie Buckley
PeopleWorldFlamePrideYouIrish
Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.
Paul Haggis
PeopleIrishTwoItalianFavourite
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
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My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
Kate Walsh
FamilyMotherBackNobodyIrishDad
There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.
John Oates
SoulAmericanYouIrishMoves
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
Frank McCourt
ChildhoodIrishMiserableWorseThan
Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'
Robert Kennedy
FatherIrishNeedBostonHimSigns
To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move, you do tend to stand out.
Aidan Turner
StandYouCareerActorLondonIrish
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.
Michael Flatley
CultureProudHeritageWillIrish
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
Van Morrison
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London's been really good to me - England as a whole - but the Scots and the Irish especially are very appreciative because that's kind of where it all came from.
Sturgill Simpson
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