Murphy showed up at Mass one Sunday and the priest almost fainted when he saw him. Murphy had never been seen in Church in his life. No man is an Ireland. - Richard Daley To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. - J.P. Donleavy 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 My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know. - Sandra Bullock I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor. - Harrison Ford The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch. - James Boswell Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at? - Elizabeth Bowen 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 God invented whiskey to prevent the Irish from ruling the world. - Irish Saying I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish. - Mary McCormack 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 I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. - John Lydon The Irish are a very fair people, they never speak well of one another. - Unknown The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. - Ben Nicholson 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 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 I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. - Orson Welles The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. - Norman Mailer 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 I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley Definition of an Irish fact: That which tells you not what is the case but what you want to hear. - Hugh Kenner The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet. - Oliver Herford 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 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 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 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 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 see also Nationality & Religious Sections Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s? Alzheimer’s Wing Corn Maze For Old People Manitoba Health Care's Test For Alzheimer's You Never Call Flooded Ireland Streets Going Green for Ireland Green Beards Habby Sin Pad-Riggs Dey! Irish Bar Irish Birth Control Irish Blessings and Sayings Irish Diplomacy Irish Dock Overboard Oh-Nos Irish Drink Irish Exam Irish Flood Irish Handcuffs Irish Rugby Fans Irish School Demolition Irish Sky Garden Crater Irish Sunblock Irish Virgin Irish Weather Forecasting Irish Yoga - Day 1 Irishman’s First Baseball Game Little Leprechaun Queen’s Recent Visit to Ireland Rainbow Beer St. Patrick’s Day Joe-ks St. Patrick’s Day Riddles St. Patrick’s Dog St. Patrick’s Pot of Gold Swimming Buddies Teddy Bear Dance The Fert What’s Under The Kilt? Whiskey Around The World Whiskey Silly |
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