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.
QuotaBillsNo man is an Ireland. - Richard Daley
Love 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
Payday came and with it beer. - Rudyard Kipling
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Wisdom is better than gold or silver. - German Proverb
The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. - Unknown
You can never buy beer, you just rent it. - Archie Bunker
Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through. - Erin Andrews
When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step. - Gerald Kersh
Being Irish, I always had this love of words. - Kenneth Branagh
There are not many Irish people playing tennis. - Goran Ivanisevic
The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico. - Pierce Brosnan
I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. - Robert Vaughn
Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. - Maria Edgeworth
The Irish are a very popular race - with themselves. - Brendan Behan
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 am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor. - Harrison Ford
Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at? - Elizabeth Bowen
Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achilles heel, if you will. - Homer Simpson
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
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
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge
You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer. - Hal Roach
The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. - Unknown
I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish. - Mary McCormack
Irish Alzheimer's - you forget everything except the grudges. - Unknown
God is good to the Irish, but no one else is; not even the Irish. - Unknown
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
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. - Bob Geldof
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
In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. - Ben Nicholson
A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold. - Philip Massinger
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. - Democritus
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. - Mariah Carey
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
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
Irish boomerang: It doesn't come back, it just sings sad songs about how much it wants to. - Unknown
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
They don't make pizza or beer out of celery. And that is all you need to know about celery. - Bill Murray
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley
I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love. - Waris Ahluwalia
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet. - Oliver Herford
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
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer. - Liam Neeson
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. - Alex Levine
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde
Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste. - Tug McGraw
Liking the Leafs is like having molten gold poured into your face. It's gold, but it's burning your face off. - Sean Cullen
With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways. - Pierce Brosnan
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theatre from inarticulate glumness. - Kenneth Tynan
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
Not all chemicals are bad. Without hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. - Dave Barry
I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate. - Graham Greene
NASA's robot Curiosity landed on Mars. Early pictures show no signs of ESPN or beer. This makes it very clear that men are not from Mars. - Unknown