Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.
The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
I would never accuse the Irish people of being in any way stupid.
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.