Mrs. Donovan was walking down O’Connell Street in Dublin when she met up with Father Flaherty.
The Father said, “Top o’ the mornin’ to ye! Aren’t ye Mrs. Donovan and didn’t I marry ye and yer hoosband 2 years ago?”
She replied, “Aye, that ye did, Father.”
The Father asked, “And be there any wee little ones yet?”
She replied, “No, not yet, Father.”
The Father said, “Well now, I’m going to Rome next week and I’ll light a candle for ye and yer hoosband.”
She replied, “Oh, thank ye, Father.”
They then parted ways.
Some years later they met again.
The Father asked, “Well now, Mrs. Donovan, how are ye these days?”
She replied, “Oh, very well, Father!”
The Father asked, “And tell me, have ye any wee ones yet?”
She replied, “Oh yes, Father! Three sets of twins and 4 singles, 10 in all!”
The Father said, “That’s wonderful! How is yer loving hoosband doing?”
She replied, “E’s gone to Rome to blow out yer fookin’ candle.”
No man is an Ireland. - Richard Daley
My soul is still Irish. - Ciaran Hinds
I'm Irish. We think sideways. - Spike Milligan
There are not many Irish people playing tennis. - Goran Ivanisevic
The Irish are a very popular race - with themselves. - Brendan Behan
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess. - Gregory Peck
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself. - Erich Fromm
The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch. - James Boswell
I'm walking backwards for Christmas Across the Irish Sea. - Spike Milligan
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer
You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer. - Hal Roach
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
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
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
I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. - James Nesbitt
The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood
Irish boomerang: It doesn't come back, it just sings sad songs about how much it wants to. - Unknown
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
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
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 think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison
I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.' - Kevin Barry
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
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue
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
The circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are. - Mewtwo
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
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. - Virginia Woolf
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
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
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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
My soul is still Irish. - Ciaran Hinds
I'm Irish. We think sideways. - Spike Milligan
There are not many Irish people playing tennis. - Goran Ivanisevic
The Irish are a very popular race - with themselves. - Brendan Behan
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess. - Gregory Peck
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself. - Erich Fromm
The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch. - James Boswell
I'm walking backwards for Christmas Across the Irish Sea. - Spike Milligan
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer
You know it's summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer. - Hal Roach
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
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
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
I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. - James Nesbitt
The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood
Irish boomerang: It doesn't come back, it just sings sad songs about how much it wants to. - Unknown
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
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
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 think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison
I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.' - Kevin Barry
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
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue
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
The circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are. - Mewtwo
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
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. - Virginia Woolf
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
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
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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