Mrs. Donovan was walking down O’Connell Street in Dublin when she met up with Father Flaherty.
The Father said, “Top o’ the mornin’ to ye! Aren’t ye Mrs. Donovan and didn’t I marry ye and yer hoosband 2 years ago?”
She replied, “Aye, that ye did, Father.”
The Father asked, “And be there any wee little ones yet?”
She replied, “No, not yet, Father.”
The Father said, “Well now, I’m going to Rome next week and I’ll light a candle for ye and yer hoosband.”
She replied, “Oh, thank ye, Father.”
They then parted ways.
Some years later they met again.
The Father asked, “Well now, Mrs. Donovan, how are ye these days?”
She replied, “Oh, very well, Father!”
The Father asked, “And tell me, have ye any wee ones yet?”
She replied, “Oh yes, Father! Three sets of twins and 4 singles, 10 in all!”
The Father said, “That’s wonderful! How is yer loving hoosband doing?”
She replied, “E’s gone to Rome to blow out yer fookin’ candle.”
My soul is still Irish. - Ciaran Hinds
I am very proud to be Irish. - Philip Treacy
When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step. - Gerald Kersh
My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess. - Gregory Peck
Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. - Norman Reedus
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself. - Erich Fromm
The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots. - Sean Connery
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. - Erma Bombeck
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
I'm walking backwards for Christmas Across the Irish Sea. - Spike Milligan
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge
You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer. - Hal Roach
One year they wanted to make me poster boy - for birth control. - Rodney Dangerfield
God is good to the Irish, but no one else is; not even the Irish. - Unknown
Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland - rich and thick. - Samuel Beckett
The Irish are a fair people, they never speak well of one another. - Samuel Johnson
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. - Brendan Behan
I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. - Mariah Carey
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
I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. - Meghan O'Rourke
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
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
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
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
If another one of my Whole Food friends says my wife should have a home birth, I am going to punch all the soy on the planet. - Patton Oswalt
Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth, for she has held a star. - Larry Barratto
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Unknown
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. - David Attenborough
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. - Virginia Woolf
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
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Why do you Irish always answer a question with a question?",
New York Mayor Al Smith: "Do we now?" - Franklin D Roosevelt
I am very proud to be Irish. - Philip Treacy
When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step. - Gerald Kersh
My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess. - Gregory Peck
Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. - Norman Reedus
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself. - Erich Fromm
The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots. - Sean Connery
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. - Erma Bombeck
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
I'm walking backwards for Christmas Across the Irish Sea. - Spike Milligan
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge
You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer. - Hal Roach
One year they wanted to make me poster boy - for birth control. - Rodney Dangerfield
God is good to the Irish, but no one else is; not even the Irish. - Unknown
Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland - rich and thick. - Samuel Beckett
The Irish are a fair people, they never speak well of one another. - Samuel Johnson
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. - Brendan Behan
I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. - Daniel Radcliffe
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. - Mariah Carey
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
I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. - Meghan O'Rourke
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
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
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
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
If another one of my Whole Food friends says my wife should have a home birth, I am going to punch all the soy on the planet. - Patton Oswalt
Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth, for she has held a star. - Larry Barratto
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Unknown
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. - David Attenborough
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. - Virginia Woolf
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
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Why do you Irish always answer a question with a question?",
New York Mayor Al Smith: "Do we now?" - Franklin D Roosevelt
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