Dervla Kirwan Quotes

My soul is still Irish.

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

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

I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

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

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

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.

I am immensely proud of my Irish roots.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.

I gotta lot of Black Irish in me.

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.

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

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

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.

I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.

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

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish.

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.