Something terrible has happened. The Irish have become hard-working and sober. – The Simpsons Homer Simpson to Moe. In episode, In the Name of the Grandfather.
Something has been awakened in the Irish people…it was not just a referendum it was more like a social revolution. – Leo Varadkar On Ireland voting for gay marriage.
I may be Irish but I’m not stupid. – Joe Biden Biden, who is of Irish descent, got into hot water for appearing to imply Irish people are stupid.
Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they’re Irish, but because they’re brilliant plays. – Garry Hynes
I’m 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish. – Heather Matarazzo
It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say. – Henry Fonda
As I told Piers Morgan, ‘Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.’ – James Nesbitt
I worked the drive-through at McDonald’s and tried out different accents – Italian, Russian, Irish. – James Franco
Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics’ English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups’. – Jeb Bush
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
When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould. Now there are thousands of comedians out there, and I don’t think I can be above it all. – Jasper Carrott
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
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
There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s. – Canelo Alvarez
I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country – Irish music – had a particular resonance. – Brendan Gleeson
Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again. – Andrea Corr
