#iris

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. ↗

— J. P. Donleavy

#look #marry #poverty

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#being #burden #having #irish #problem

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish. ↗

— James Franco

#different #i #irish #italian #mcdonald

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth. ↗

— Anna Friel

#addict #away #baby #because #been

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic. ↗

— James Larkin

#british empire #construction #destruction #empire #england

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland. ↗

— James Larkin

#best #class #co-operative #commonwealth #could

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#death #i #i think #irish #think

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#cry #dirty #how #irish #know

The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it. ↗

— John Major

#british #country #had #irish #our

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish. ↗

— Heather Matarazzo

#cast #constantly #get #grew #i