Mrs. Donovan was walking down O’Connell Street in Dublin when she met up with Father Flaherty. No man is an Ireland. - Richard Daley My soul is still Irish. - Ciaran Hinds Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. - James Joyce The Irish are a very popular race - with themselves. - Brendan Behan An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral. - Mary Deasy Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself. - Erich Fromm If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. - Brendan Behan Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. - Unknown You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous. - Bonnie Tyler I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. - Edna O'Brien 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 God invented whiskey to prevent the Irish from ruling the world. - Irish Saying The Irish are a fair people, they never speak well of one another. - Samuel Johnson Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. - 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 Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. - Colin Farrell What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart? - Unknown Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born? - Benny Hill Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. - Orson Welles There are only two kinds of people in the world: the Irish and those who wish they were. - Irish Saying 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 I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. - Meghan O'Rourke I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it. - Chris O'Dowd 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 Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. - Sam Levenson 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 When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Unknown 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 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 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 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 see also Marriage, Nationality & Religious Sections Flooded Ireland Streets Going Green for Ireland Green Beards Habby Sin Pad-Riggs Dey! Irish Alzheimers Irish Bar Irish Blessings and Sayings Irish Diplomacy Irish Dock Overboard Oh-Nos Irish Drink Irish Exam Irish Flood Irish Handcuffs Irish Rugby Fans Irish Sky Garden Crater Irish Sunblock Irish Virgin Irish Weather Forecasting Irishman’s First Baseball Game Little Leprechaun Queen’s Recent Visit to Ireland St. Patrick’s Day Joe-ks St. Patrick’s Day Riddles St. Patrick’s Dog Swimming Buddies Teddy Bear Dance The Fert Whiskey Around The World Whiskey Silly |
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