The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.
Laurie R. King
DogPersonNowIrishAnythingLast
There's no such thing as the 'Irish Internet.' It's just the Internet.
John Collison
InternetIrishJustThing
I got makeup tests and hair tests for 'Versailles,' and the main thing they were obsessed with was that my hands were disgusting. I had three years of Irish dirt under my nails. I had to have manicures and everything.
George Blagden
HairMakeupHandsThreeNailsIrish
'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.
John Lydon
MusicAmericanCountryPlaceIrish
I don't see myself as either Irish or American, I'm a New Yorker.
Frank McCourt
MyselfAmericanNewIrishSee
My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.
Matthew McConaughey
FamilyNameBackIrishBranchesGot
Irish fathers still have certain responsibilities, and by the time my two daughters turned seven, they could swim, ride a bike, sing at least one part of a Woody Guthrie song, and recite all of W. B. Yeats's 'The Song of Wandering Aengus.'
Adrian McKinty
TimeRideBikeSongIrishTwo
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
GrowthTaxIrishEconomyTaxesLow
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler
PeopleCircleNowTryIrishNation
I miss Irish milk. Probably not as much as Superquinn sausages.
Tristan MacManus
MilkIrishMissSausagesMuch
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
SocietyTeachTalkListenIrish
The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
Roddy Doyle
ProblemBackBurdenIrishBeing
Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
Lady Gregory
HistoryGreatPeopleBornIrishHe
Ireland never lacked the capacity to feed its people. During the entire 'great famine,' the island continued to produce massive amounts of beef and grain. The Irish just couldn't afford to buy any of it due to the enforcement of rack-renting, high taxation, and suppression of manufactures.
Robert Zubrin
GreatPeopleIslandNeverIrishBuy
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
J. P. Donleavy
PovertyLookIrishMarry
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
PrincipalIrishFiftyPopulationTen
The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.
Ian Watson
AloneFindIrishEuropeHalfFact
People often ask me why I sing with a strong Irish accent. I suppose when I was five years old, I spoke with a strong Irish accent, so I sang with one, too.
Dolores O'Riordan
PeopleMeStrongWhyIrishAsk
Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
Fiona Shaw
HistoryPeopleIrishEducatedOnly
My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
Christopher Meloni
GreatSkyThoughtWhyCloudyIrish
I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
Daniel Barenboim
MusiciansKnowIrishOverBeenJews
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
Colin Farrell
I AmMeIrishSaint Patrick's Day
I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
Eavan Boland
MenWomanNightTableIrishOver
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Brendan Behan
RespectIrishEverythingCynical
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