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Q: What is out on the lawn all summer and is Irish? My soul is still Irish. - Ciaran Hinds I'm Irish. We think sideways. - Spike Milligan I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. - Colin Farrell Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through. - Erin Andrews Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. - James Joyce Being Irish, I always had this love of words. - Kenneth Branagh There are not many Irish people playing tennis. - Goran Ivanisevic 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 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 Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. - Norman Reedus The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch. - James Boswell 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 Bless your little Irish heart and every other Irish part. - Irish Blessings Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. - Unknown You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous. - Bonnie Tyler 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 Irish Alzheimer's - you forget everything except the grudges. - Unknown Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland - rich and thick. - Samuel Beckett In Ireland, a writer is looked upon as a failed conversationalist. - Unknown We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill 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 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 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 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 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 I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm. - Rebecca Mader At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. - Bono 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 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 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 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 think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison 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 Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste. - Tug McGraw We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono 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 For my last meal, I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs. - Erin O'Connor 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 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 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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