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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 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 Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. - James Joyce Being Irish, I always had this love of words. - Kenneth Branagh The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico. - Pierce Brosnan My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong You never miss the water till the well has run dry. - Irish Proverb I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess. - Gregory Peck I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. - Lynn Collins I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know. - Sandra Bullock The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. - George Bernard Shaw If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. - Brendan Behan The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots. - Sean Connery You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous. - Bonnie Tyler I'm walking backwards for Christmas Across the Irish Sea. - Spike Milligan 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 Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland - rich and thick. - Samuel Beckett 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 Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. - Yancy Butler I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. - James Nesbitt A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the Doctor's book. - Irish Proverb 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 Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness If you put an Irishman on a spit, you can always get another Irishman to baste him. - George Bernard Shaw An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about. - Austin O'Malley I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. - Orson Welles We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. - Oscar Wilde At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. - Bono 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 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 The trouble with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, with absolutely no talent. - Hugh Leonard I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. - Robin Williams I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. - Meghan O'Rourke I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. - Unknown 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 curse of the Irish is not that they don't know the words to a song - its that they know them all. - Susan Dooley 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 If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde As I told Piers Morgan, 'Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.' - James Nesbitt May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door. - Irish Blessings 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 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 Irish whiskey was first developed for its medicinal benefits. It's just lucky for the rest of us that the Irish are such a sickly bunch. - Unknown 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 Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Why do you Irish always answer a question with a question?", New York Mayor Al Smith: "Do we now?" - Franklin D Roosevelt 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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