John Patrick Shanley Quotes

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 kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

My soul is still Irish.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

I'm proud to be Irish.

I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but also in many instances, the Irish writers are writing about people and circumstances that I can relate to.

Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.

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

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

I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast.

I'm a typical Irishman in that I only get home for weddings and funerals.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture.

Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

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

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the 'Kazee' is not.

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in 'Old Ireland.' It has been made all of kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can't think of anything else for definite.

I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.

I gotta lot of Black Irish in me.

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