Originally, the colour associated with Saint Patrick was blue. Over the years the colour green and its association with Saint Patrick’s Day grew. Green ribbons and shamrocks were worn in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day as early as the 17th century. Saint Patrick is said to have used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pagan Irish, and the ubiquitous wearing and display of shamrocks and shamrock-inspired designs has become a feature of the day. In the 1798 rebellion, to make a political statement, Irish soldiers wore full green uniforms on 17 March in hopes of catching public attention. The phrase, “the wearing of the green”, meaning to wear a shamrock on one’s clothing, derives from a song of the same name.
QuotaBillsLove is the only gold. - Alfred Tennyson
My soul is still Irish. - Ciaran Hinds
Speak silver, reply gold. - Swahili Proverb
Beer speaks. People mumble. - Tony McGee
I am very proud to be Irish. - Philip Treacy
He buries gold who hides the truth. - Pythagoras
Wisdom is better than gold or silver. - German Proverb
The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley
Religions change; beer and wine remain. - Hervey Allen
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. - Unknown
Where gold speaks every tongue is silent. - Italian Proverb
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. - J.P. Donleavy
Beer. Now there's a temporary solution. - Homer Simpson
When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step. - Gerald Kersh
I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. - Robert Vaughn
An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral. - Mary Deasy
I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. - Lynn Collins
I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know. - Sandra Bullock
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl. - Lara Flynn Boyle
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - Benjamin Franklin
The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots. - Sean Connery
Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. - Unknown
What two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia? - Sydney Smith
They bequeathed the gleaming gold, treasure of men, to earth. - Beowulf
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
Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki. - Nigel Starmer-Smith
God is good to the Irish, but no one else is; not even the Irish. - Unknown
You meet your friend, your face brightens - you have struck gold. - Kassia
The Irish are a fair people, they never speak well of one another. - Samuel Johnson
I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy. - Kevin O'Leary
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. - Bob Geldof
In heaven there is no beer...
That's why we drink ours here. - Unknown
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. - Fiona Shaw
The Irish are a very fair people, they never speak well of one another. - Unknown
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. - Brendan Behan
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit
Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness
The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. - William H Gass
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. - Oscar Wilde
I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big. - Bill O'Reilly
The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. - Maeve Binchy
God gives men wisdom as he gives them gold; his treasure house is not the mint, but the mine. - Arabic Proverb
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. - Norman Mailer
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
Irish boomerang: It doesn't come back, it just sings sad songs about how much it wants to. - Unknown
I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. - Robin Williams
I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. - Meghan O'Rourke
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
I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it. - Chris O'Dowd
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. - George Carlin
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
We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono
Tooth decay was a perennial problem that meant a mouthful of silver for patients, and for dentists a pocketful of gold. - Claudia Wallis
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad.
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. - G K Chesterton
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. - William Howard Taft
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
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
Some men's ambition is art, some men's ambition is fame, some men's ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men. - William Booth
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan
Mancation: A man's vacation. Generally includes lots of beer, a Redneck grill, slabs of meat for cooking and a sack of fireworks. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
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