#irish

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#devise #irish #nation #now #old

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. ↗

— Yancy Butler

#figure #go #i #irish #name

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#completely #dishes #endure #friends #historical

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#ireland #irish #know #like #rock

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.' ↗

— Carson Daly

#attitude #come #figure #get #hope

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