In a tiny village on the Irish coast lived an old lady, a virgin and very proud of it. I'm Irish. We think sideways. - Spike Milligan To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. - J.P. Donleavy Being Irish, I always had this love of words. - Kenneth Branagh Take a cruise down to the Virgin's Island. - Archie Bunker Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. - Maria Edgeworth 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 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 I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl. - Lara Flynn Boyle If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. - Brendan Behan I miss Irish milk. Probably not as much as Superquinn sausages. - Tristan MacManus 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 God is good to the Irish, but no one else is; not even the Irish. - Unknown We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the Doctor's book. - Irish Proverb I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy 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 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 I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. - Peter O'Toole The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. - Norman Mailer The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill. - Harold Nicolson I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. - Robin Williams I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting. - Pierce Brosnan The problem with being Irish is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times. - Roddy Doyle Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. - William Butler Yeats "Burn everything British," he once advised his Irish countrymen, "except their coal." - Jonathan Swift 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 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 In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde 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 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 see also Tombstone Section Flooded Ireland Streets Going Green for Ireland Green Beards Habby Sin Pad-Riggs Dey! Irish Alzheimers 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 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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