He said you have to be on the side of the losers, the people with bad lungs. You have to be with those who are homesick and can't breathe very well in Ireland. He said it makes no sense to hold a stone in your hand. A lot more people would be homeles...
I liked going to Catholic school.
I was born and bred a Catholic. I was brought up a very strong Catholic - I practiced in a seminary for four years, from eleven to fourteen, and trained to be a Catholic priest. So I was very steeped in all that.
I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choic...
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishnes...
Irish Little Boy: What are we doing, mommy? Irish Mommy: We're just waiting, dear. When they're finished putting first class people in the boat, they'll be starting with us. And we ought to be ready, oughtn't we? [Irish Girl nods]
Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
I went to a Catholic school, and I just rebelled.
My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education.
For a Catholic understanding of the faith there is no reason why the basic concern of Evangelical Christianity as it comes to expression in the three “only's” should have no place in the Catholic Church. Accepted as basic and ultimate formulas of...
I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in.
Once a Catholic always a Catholic.
My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.
There are not many Irish people playing tennis!
I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish, Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, ...
The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.
I'm not a proselytizer. I was raised Catholic. I am a Catholic.
I was a Catholic youth minister for eight years... I'm not Catholic anymore. The church is too misogynistic.
Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.