Irish Culture Quotes

I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

For me, a story begins with music: I feel the rhythm, the cadence, the pulse of the characters and their voices and the setting. Because I had just finished writing a book called 'Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine,' I was already filled with the music of the lives and culture of the Irish people, so I thought, why not use it?

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.

You don't see very many Irish-Cypriot pop-up restaurants kicking about!

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

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

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

I was a huge fan of J. Courtney Sullivan's novel 'Maine,' and like that novel, 'Saint' is a family saga set in Boston. Irish Catholic family secrets - is there anything better?

Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields.

I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.

It's not a hard sell to be asked to do something in Ireland.

I bought a flat in Camden when I was 26, which I was extremely lucky to do. I think it's an Irish thing about owning land, giving you a bit of security.

People in Ireland take in the whole song. After a long history of great singers and songwriters and poets, they are able to consume the entire song - not just the external; they go inside.

I grew up in a small village in the west of Ireland.

I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

I didn't start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

I'm Irish. We think sideways

Our pioneers were all Protestants except for an occasional Irishman.

Whenever I come to Ireland, I end up just bantering with the crowd so the show will just be what it is.

I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an adult. I also went to a Catholic school, which was full of Irish girls whose parents never split up, so everyone I knew had these big family set-ups.