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The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.

— Ian Watson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Winston Churchill

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.

— John McGahern

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

— Colin Farrell

As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and Italians; that's what we grow up with.

— Dylan Moran

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.

— Enya

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.

— Michael D. Higgins

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

— Anne Enright

Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.

— Alice McDermott

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

— Charles Stewart Parnell

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

— Fiona Shaw

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