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Q: What is out on the lawn all summer and is Irish? My soul is still Irish. - Ciaran Hinds I am very proud to be Irish. - Philip Treacy 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 I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. - Colin Farrell To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. - J.P. Donleavy When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step. - Gerald Kersh Being Irish, I always had this love of words. - Kenneth Branagh There are not many Irish people playing tennis. - Goran Ivanisevic I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. - Jack Nicholson I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. - Robert Vaughn The Irish are a very popular race - with themselves. - Brendan Behan The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl. - Lara Flynn Boyle 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 Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. - Unknown My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? - Carroll O'Connor The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. - 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 It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. - Bob Geldof Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. - Fiona Shaw Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. - Fiona Shaw I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. - John Lydon 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 If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit Wherever you go and whatever you do, may the luck of the Irish be there with you. - Irish Blessings 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 I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. - Orson Welles I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm. - Rebecca Mader At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. - Bono I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. - Peter O'Toole I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. - Maeve Binchy 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 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 I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. - Kate Flannery Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown Definition of an Irish fact: That which tells you not what is the case but what you want to hear. - Hugh Kenner I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting. - Pierce Brosnan Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. - William Butler Yeats "Burn everything British," he once advised his Irish countrymen, "except their coal." - Jonathan Swift The curse of the Irish is not that they don't know the words to a song - its that they know them all. - Susan Dooley I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison 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 Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. - Alex Levine In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue 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 It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan 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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