There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Yes... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.
The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
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.
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.
I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.
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.