Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion.

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

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it.

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers.