#irish

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#me #nothing #should #why

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#come #families #family #fortunate #hitting

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#carrying #greatest #heads #home #husbands

The gun is not out of Irish politics. ↗

— Ian Paisley

#irish #out #politics

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists. ↗

— Alan Parker

#also #because #difficult #even #exists

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

#after #carried #declaration #destroyed #disregarded

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#ask #bloc #either #ethnicity #i

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken. ↗

— Bobby Sands

#break #broken #imperial #irishman #nothing

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#drawing #irish #irish people #lot #people

Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#been #blacks #book #careers #dogs