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Q: What is out on the lawn all summer and is Irish? I am very proud to be Irish. - Philip Treacy I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. - Colin Farrell Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. - James Joyce 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 I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know. - Sandra Bullock Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. - Norman Reedus I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor. - Harrison Ford An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at? - Elizabeth Bowen 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 My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? - Carroll O'Connor 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 The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. - Unknown Irish Alzheimer's - you forget everything except the grudges. - Unknown Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland - rich and thick. - Samuel Beckett The Irish are a fair people, they never speak well of one another. - Samuel Johnson We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill 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 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 I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel. - John Lydon 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 I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart? - Unknown If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit 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 If you put an Irishman on a spit, you can always get another Irishman to baste him. - George Bernard Shaw I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm. - Rebecca Mader I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad. - P.J. O'Rourke The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill. - Harold Nicolson 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 think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. - Kate Flannery Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. - Thomas Kettle An Irishman after trying American beer for the first time: "Put it back in the horse!" - Unknown I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley What a pity Hell's gates are not kept by O'Flynn The surly old dog would let nobody in. - Patrick Ireland 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 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 As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.' - James Nesbitt We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono 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 I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. - Iris Murdoch 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 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 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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