[This is a girl in Ireland who’s making prank calls at the age of 8. My soul is still Irish. - Ciaran Hinds I am very proud to be Irish. - Philip Treacy To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. - J.P. Donleavy Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. - James Joyce The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico. - Pierce Brosnan I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. - Jack Nicholson Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. - Maria Edgeworth An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral. - Mary Deasy 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 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 The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. - Unknown Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. - Colin Farrell I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy I'm not buying my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. - Yogi Berra Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. - Albert Einstein I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad. - P.J. O'Rourke I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. - Maeve Binchy 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 I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. - Robin Williams 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 Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. - Unknown I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting. - Pierce Brosnan Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. - William Butler Yeats True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. - Kurt Vonnegut 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 Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. - Abe Lemons 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 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 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 The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal 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 see also Practical Section Going Green for Ireland Green Beards Habby Sin Pad-Riggs Dey! Irish Alzheimers Irish Banister Blessing Irish Bar Irish Birth Control Irish Blessings and Sayings Irish Dock Overboard Oh-Nos Irish Drink Irish Exam Irish Flood Irish Rugby Fans Irish Sky Garden Crater Irish Virgin Irish Yoga Irish Weather Forecasting Leprechaun Treats Little Leprechaun St. Patrick’s Day Joe-ks St. Patrick’s Day Riddles St. Patrick’s Dog St. Patrick’s Pot of Gold Swimming Buddies The Fert What’s Under The Kilt? |
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