Irish-American Community Quotes

For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.

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.

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

I'm from outside of Boston, and in Boston, people are so passionate about their Irishness.

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

I know Irish-American people. I know what their homes look like. I know what they have for dinner. I know how they turn a phrase.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.