We've all seen the faces of those ravaged by the floods of Sri Lanka and New Orleans. This award winning photograph of the recent flood waters rising in Ireland captures the horror and suffering of the motherland...
QuotaBillsBeer speaks. People mumble. - Tony McGee
Payday came and with it beer. - Rudyard Kipling
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. - Unknown
Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through. - Erin Andrews
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. - Maria Edgeworth
My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong
The Irish are a very popular race - with themselves. - Brendan Behan
I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know. - Sandra Bullock
Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at? - Elizabeth Bowen
Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achilles heel, if you will. - Homer Simpson
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl. - Lara Flynn Boyle
The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots. - Sean Connery
You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous. - Bonnie Tyler
My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? - Carroll O'Connor
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge
The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. - Unknown
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. - Bob Geldof
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty
I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. - James Nesbitt
What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart? - Unknown
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. - Mariah Carey
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. - Orson Welles
At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. - Bono
I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad. - P.J. O'Rourke
I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. - Peter O'Toole
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill. - Harold Nicolson
Jameson's Irish Whiskey really does improve with age: the older I get the more I like it. - Bob Monkhouse
Irish boomerang: It doesn't come back, it just sings sad songs about how much it wants to. - Unknown
Let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. - Liam Neeson
Definition of an Irish fact: That which tells you not what is the case but what you want to hear. - Hugh Kenner
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. - William Butler Yeats
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer. - Liam Neeson
As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.' - James Nesbitt
We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono
Isn't it a very curious thing that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland an' the English brought in the fleas. - Frank McCourt
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Unknown
Not all chemicals are bad. Without hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. - Dave Barry
Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien