• "We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English." - Winston Churchill Tweet
• "Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me." - Colin Farrell Tweet
• "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." - William Butler Yeats Tweet
• "There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting." - John Millington Synge Tweet
• "Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift." - Liam Neeson Tweet
• "Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep." - Dave Barry Tweet
• "That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?" - Lara Flynn Boyle Tweet
• "A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano." - Fiona Shaw Tweet
• "Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it." - Pope John Paul II Tweet
• "Ireland sober is Ireland stiff." - James Joyce Tweet