Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.
Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.
My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.
Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.
I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.
Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.
I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.
Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.
In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.
As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.'
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
Muse: No problem "Irish", everything gonna be OK.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!
