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.”
Birth patrol pills. - Archie Bunker
I am very proud to be Irish. - Philip Treacy
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. - James Joyce
I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. - Jack Nicholson
My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong
The Irish are a very popular race - with themselves. - Brendan Behan
Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. - Norman Reedus
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. - Brendan Behan
My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? - Carroll O'Connor
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. - Bob Geldof
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. - Fiona Shaw
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. - Brendan Behan
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. - Ben Nicholson
The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids. - Jill Bensley
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit
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
Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. - Bart Simpson
I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm. - Rebecca Mader
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. - Norman Mailer
Let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. - Liam Neeson
Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. - Thomas Kettle
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley
"Burn everything British," he once advised his Irish countrymen, "except their coal." - Jonathan Swift
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue
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
The circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are. - Mewtwo
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
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
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
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
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
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung
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
I am very proud to be Irish. - Philip Treacy
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. - James Joyce
I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. - Jack Nicholson
My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong
The Irish are a very popular race - with themselves. - Brendan Behan
Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. - Norman Reedus
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. - Brendan Behan
My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? - Carroll O'Connor
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. - Bob Geldof
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. - Fiona Shaw
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. - Brendan Behan
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. - Ben Nicholson
The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids. - Jill Bensley
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit
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
Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. - Bart Simpson
I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm. - Rebecca Mader
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. - Norman Mailer
Let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. - Liam Neeson
Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. - Thomas Kettle
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley
"Burn everything British," he once advised his Irish countrymen, "except their coal." - Jonathan Swift
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue
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
The circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are. - Mewtwo
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
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
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
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
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
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung
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
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