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• Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

  Bob Geldof

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Irish

• I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

  Gerry Cooney

  Topics in Family, Work

  Tags in Irish, Catholic

• But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda – no-one else is going to do that.

  Gerry Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Republicans, Irish, Sovereignty

• In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.

  Gerry Adams

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  Tags in British, Irish, Governments

• When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

  Gerry Adams

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  Tags in Irish, Freedom, Unity

• There’s something about the Irish that is remarkable.

  Fiona Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Something, Irish

• Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil’s first movie and my first movie.

  Stephen Rea

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  Tags in Film, Irish

• As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

  George J. Mitchell, Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in British, Irish, Governments

• The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

  Sean Connery

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  Tags in Fire, Irish

• The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

  Seamus Heaney

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  Tags in Inhabit, Irish

• I’m an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

  Edna O'Brien

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  Tags in Irish, Catholic

• Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don’t know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother’s side.

  William T. Wiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nationality, Irish

• I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

  Edward Burns

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Feeling, American, Irish

• Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.

  William Hamilton Maxwell

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  Tags in Irish, Company, People

• Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

  William Butler Yeats

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  Tags in Irish, Cast

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

  William Butler Yeats

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  Tags in Irish, Poets and Poetry

• We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.

  Jack Lynch

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  Tags in Hospitals, Irish, Derry, Donegal, Authority

• The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

  Jack Lynch

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Irish, Injured, Innocent

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

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Tags in Irish, Traditional

• 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.

  Paul Theroux

  Tags in Irish, Africa