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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

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

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?

I'm just a loud Irish guy.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.