Irish Flood
Crowds panic as flood threatens Ireland... what 'ales' you?
We've all seen the faces of those ravaged by the floods of Sri Lanka and New Orleans. This award winning photograph of the recent flood waters rising in Ireland captures the horror and suffering of the motherland...
Survival in the Irish countryside
QuotaBillsI am very proud to be Irish. - Philip Treacy
I work until beer o'clock. - Stephen King
Everyone is wise until he speaks. - Irish Drinking Toast
I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. - Colin Farrell
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. - James Joyce
Being Irish, I always had this love of words. - Kenneth Branagh
I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. - Robert Vaughn
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
I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor. - Harrison Ford
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
The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. - Unknown
God invented whiskey to prevent the Irish from ruling the world. - Irish Saying
In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist. - Unknown
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
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty
What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart? - Unknown
Wherever you go and whatever you do, may the luck of the Irish be there with you. - Irish Blessings
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
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. - Maeve Binchy
Irish boomerang: It doesn't come back, it just sings sad songs about how much it wants to. - Unknown
I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. - Kate Flannery
They don't make pizza or beer out of celery. And that is all you need to know about celery. - Bill Murray
An Irishman after trying American beer for the first time: "Put it back in the horse!" - Unknown
Definition of an Irish fact: That which tells you not what is the case but what you want to hear. - Hugh Kenner
I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie. - Jimmy Fallon
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. - William Butler Yeats
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
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