Irish America

Famous quotes containing the words irish america, irish and/or america:

“Irish Americans are about as Irish as black Americans are African.”
—Bob Geldof (b. 1954)

“Hindered characters
seldom have mothers
in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

“What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)