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Q: What is out on the lawn all summer and is Irish? I'm Irish. We think sideways. - Spike Milligan Everyone is wise until he speaks. - Irish Drinking Toast The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. - James Joyce When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step. - Gerald Kersh I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. - Jack Nicholson You never miss the water till the well has run dry. - Irish Proverb The Irish are a very popular race - with themselves. - Brendan Behan I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. - Lynn Collins I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know. - Sandra Bullock Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. - Norman Reedus I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor. - Harrison Ford An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw Bless your little Irish heart and every other Irish part. - Irish Blessings 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 You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer. - Hal Roach The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. - Unknown I miss Irish milk. Probably not as much as Superquinn sausages. - Tristan MacManus I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish. - Mary McCormack God is good to the Irish, but no one else is; not even the Irish. - Unknown In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist. - Unknown I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. - John Lydon Like an Irishman's obligation, all on the one side, and always yours. - English saying Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. - Brendan Behan A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the Doctor's book. - Irish Proverb Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. - Mariah Carey An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about. - Austin O'Malley We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. - Oscar Wilde I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm. - Rebecca Mader There are only two kinds of people in the world: the Irish and those who wish they were. - Irish Saying The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. - Peter O'Toole The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. - Norman Mailer The trouble with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, with absolutely no talent. - Hugh Leonard Let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. - Liam Neeson I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. - Meghan O'Rourke An Irishman after trying American beer for the first time: "Put it back in the horse!" - Unknown I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting. - Pierce Brosnan I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie. - Jimmy Fallon I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it. - Chris O'Dowd "Burn everything British," he once advised his Irish countrymen, "except their coal." - Jonathan Swift I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.' - Kevin Barry 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 If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste. - Tug McGraw 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 Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. - William Butler Yeats For my last meal, I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs. - Erin O'Connor When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Unknown It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. - Brendan Behan That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? - Lara Flynn Boyle I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner. - Liam Neeson see also Irish & St. Patrick’s Day Sections Going Green for Ireland Green Beards Habby Sin Pad-Riggs Dey! Irish Alzheimers Irish Bar Irish Blessings and Sayings Irish Drink Irish Exam Irish Flood Irish Sky Garden Crater Irish Virgin Irish Weather Forecasting Little Leprechaun St. Patrick’s Day Joe-ks St. Patrick’s Dog Swimming Buddies Teddy Bear Dance What’s Under The Kilt?
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