Tom Paulin Quotes

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.

Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.

The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

With the Celtic Warrior thing, I wanted to convey a positive sense of Ireland.

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

So many different countries have got their version of what Merlin is: the Scottish say he Scottish, the Welsh say he's Welsh, the French say he's French.

The spirt of 1916 is as relevant and inspiring today as it was a century ago.

I am Irish, so I do like a good fight every now and then.

Every day, every week, you have another case of Israeli Arabs that are taking part in terrorist activity.

All my family look Irish. They act Irish. My sister even has red hair... it's crazy. I'm the one that doesn't seem Irish. None of the kids in my family, my siblings, speak with an Irish accent... we've never lived there full-time; we weren't born there. We just go there once or twice a year. It's weird. Our parents sound Irish, but we don't.

My mother was very proud of being Irish and being a Gunnigan in a straightforward way.

My family on my mother's side is Irish.

I think there is a very strong sense of Irish identity, and I think partly that's to do with the fact that we have evolved differently from Britain and other countries in Europe.

All nationalism is dangerous; all religions are dangerous.

I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.

The school I went to was so Gaelic that you learned how to play the tin whistle and how to Irish-dance in class.

BJP only knows how to instigate to disintegrate.

Supporting Celtic, waving a tricolour because your parents are Irish - that's a valid culture.

Arabs don't have to be the victims of the Jewish war between Lieberman and Netanyahu.

My Irish identity is important as it's a part of who I am.

On my mum Marie's side, my nana was from the Republic of Ireland, and my granddad was from the north. Lots of families in Manchester have strong Irish connections, but it never occurred to me to play for anyone other than England.

In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.

I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.

Dalits are our brothers, but some of us do not embrace them like brothers. But when they go away and become Christians, some of us take pride in associating with them. This should stop.

Language is so important to the Irish, almost regardless of education.