Daniel Barenboim Quotes

My grandfather John came from Cork. I have six degrees of separation in Ireland.

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years.

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

I gotta lot of Black Irish in me.

All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.

I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I'm very proud that I'm Irish American, though I don't know exactly where my ancestors came from. I just know County Cork.

My family on my mother's side is Irish.

There's a lot of Irish in London and have been for years - they're very much a part of the city.

My nan and granddad are from Cork.

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.

Being Irish and a citizen of the world, has made me truly appreciate Irish culture, music and history. Whether you're first, second generation Irish or even with no connection to Ireland, you should visit in 2013 for a unique experience.

I'm proud to be Irish.

Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America a generation before when times were very bad in Ireland. He worked in the Pennsylvania area and did well with horses and farming.

Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

I have a lot of fond memories of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Vague, but fond.

My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States.

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.

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy have already driven us from our homes and from our graves. We' Jews are even now constantly shifting from place to place, a strong current actually carrying us westward over the sea to the United States, where our presence is also not desired

The banishment [of Russian Jews], whether by direct decree or by not less certain indirect methods, of so large a number of men and women is not a local question. A decree to leave one's country is in the nature of things an order to enter another—some other.

I spent a lot of time growing up in Ireland in Donegal.