But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda – no-one else is going to do that. – Gerry Adams
The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads. – Flann O’Brien
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. – Frank McCourt
I know so many Irish musicians. They’re all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews. – Daniel Barenboim
I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids. – David Harewood
The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report. – Dick Spring
I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish – we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors. – Colm Meaney
I’m a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish lilt, too. – Emily Ratajkowski
The revelations of the Cloyne report have brought the government, Irish Catholics, and the Vatican to an unprecedented juncture. – Enda Kenny
My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving. – Ciaran Hinds
The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them. – Pete Hamill
I have Czech, I have Russian, I have English, I have Italian. Uh, what am I missing? A little bit of Irish. The Russian is Jewish. So I’m your classic American mutt. – Joe Lhota
There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined in Catalonia and Spain, in Ukraine and Russia. – Michael Ignatieff
Our communities have been deeply enhanced by immigration, be it of Irish Catholics across the constituency or of Muslims from Gujarat in India or from Pakistan, principally from Kashmir. – Jo Cox
