Q: What is out on the lawn all summer and is Irish? No man is an Ireland. - Richard Daley I am very proud to be Irish. - Philip Treacy Everyone is wise until he speaks. - Irish Drinking Toast I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. - Colin Farrell Being Irish, I always had this love of words. - Kenneth Branagh There are not many Irish people playing tennis. - Goran Ivanisevic The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico. - Pierce Brosnan I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. - Jack Nicholson I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. - Robert Vaughn Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. - Maria Edgeworth 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 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 Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at? - Elizabeth Bowen Bless your little Irish heart and every other Irish part. - Irish Blessings The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots. - Sean Connery My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? - Carroll O'Connor I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. - Edna O'Brien 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 Irish Alzheimer's - you forget everything except the grudges. - Unknown 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 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 The Irish are a very fair people, they never speak well of one another. - Unknown I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. - James Nesbitt Like an Irishman's obligation, all on the one side, and always yours. - English saying I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. - Ben Nicholson The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers If you put an Irishman on a spit, you can always get another Irishman to baste him. - George Bernard Shaw My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. - Mariah Carey At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. - Bono There are only two kinds of people in the world: the Irish and those who wish they were. - Irish Saying I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad. - P.J. O'Rourke The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. - Norman Mailer Jameson's Irish Whiskey really does improve with age: the older I get the more I like it. - Bob Monkhouse The trouble with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, with absolutely no talent. - Hugh Leonard Irish boomerang: It doesn't come back, it just sings sad songs about how much it wants to. - Unknown I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. - Robin Williams Let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. - Liam Neeson I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet. - Oliver Herford I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie. - Jimmy Fallon What a pity Hell's gates are not kept by O'Flynn The surly old dog would let nobody in. - Patrick Ireland The problem with being Irish is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times. - Roddy Doyle I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day. - Tamara Tunie That's the Irish people all over - they treat a joke as a serious thing, and a serious thing as a joke. - Sean O'Casey I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.' - Kevin Barry I'm a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish lilt, too. - Emily Ratajkowski If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.' - James Nesbitt May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door. - Irish Blessings 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 I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. - Iris Murdoch Irish whiskey was first developed for its medicinal benefits. It's just lucky for the rest of us that the Irish are such a sickly bunch. - Unknown 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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