Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.
I'm an Irishman who came up from a small little country, followed his dream, and now I hold the title.
Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in.
Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in its place.
The doctor heard my heartbeat and found out I had an irregular heartbeat. I was not symptomatic or aware of my symptoms. I had no idea that this could make me five times more likely to have a stroke than somebody who doesn't have this.
Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.
Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.
In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated.
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
Not long after watching 'The Passenger,' I wrote the first lines of 'The Isle of Youth,' which concerns twin sisters who swap identities and become ensnared in the Miami underworld.
The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.
Not everything happens when you expect it; it is what it is. The people who ride with you, ride with you.
I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.
