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Q: What is out on the lawn all summer and is Irish? No man is an Ireland. - Richard Daley My soul is still Irish. - Ciaran Hinds I'm Irish. We think sideways. - Spike Milligan Paddy O Furniture: Irish lawn chairs - Daffynitions joe-ks.com I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. - Colin Farrell To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. - J.P. Donleavy There are not many Irish people playing tennis. - Goran Ivanisevic I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. - Jack Nicholson The Irish are a very popular race - with themselves. - Brendan Behan 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'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. - Lynn Collins I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl. - Lara Flynn Boyle Bless your little Irish heart and every other Irish part. - Irish Blessings 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 My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? - Carroll O'Connor There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. - Unknown 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 In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist. - Unknown Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. - Bob Geldof 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 Like an Irishman's obligation, all on the one side, and always yours. - English saying A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the Doctor's book. - Irish Proverb Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. - Colin Farrell What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart? - Unknown The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. - Ben Nicholson Under the English legal system you are innocent until you are shown to be Irish. - Ted Whitehead Wherever you go and whatever you do, may the luck of the Irish be there with you. - Irish Blessings The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. - Mariah Carey 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 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 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 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 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 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 I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.' - Kevin Barry An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth. - Unknown Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. - Alex Levine Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste. - Tug McGraw 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 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 Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. - William Butler Yeats 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 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 Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien see also Irish & St. Patrick’s Day Sections Going Green for Ireland Green Beards Habby Sin Pad-Riggs Dey! Irish Alzheimers Irish Bar Irish Blessings and Sayings Irish Drink Irish Exam Irish Flood Irish Sky Garden Crater Irish Virgin Irish Weather Forecasting Little Leprechaun St. Patrick’s Day Joe-ks St. Patrick’s Dog Swimming Buddies Teddy Bear Dance What’s Under The Kilt?
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