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
The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. - James Joyce
My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong
I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. - Lynn Collins
I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor. - Harrison Ford
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
You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous. - Bonnie Tyler
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. - Edna O'Brien
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. - Buddha
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal
I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. - James Nesbitt
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. - Colin Farrell
At the base and birth of every successful venture you will find an enthusiast. - Winston Churchill
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit
Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. - Bart Simpson
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. - Mariah Carey
At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. - Bono
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
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
Definition of an Irish fact: That which tells you not what is the case but what you want to hear. - Hugh Kenner
I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it. - Chris O'Dowd
The problem with being Irish is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times. - Roddy Doyle
I'm a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish lilt, too. - Emily Ratajkowski
Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved. - Mark Twain
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. - Sam Levenson
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
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
If another one of my Whole Food friends says my wife should have a home birth, I am going to punch all the soy on the planet. - Patton Oswalt
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. - David Attenborough
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
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
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
The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. - James Joyce
My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong
I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. - Lynn Collins
I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor. - Harrison Ford
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
You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous. - Bonnie Tyler
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. - Edna O'Brien
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. - Buddha
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal
I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. - James Nesbitt
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. - Colin Farrell
At the base and birth of every successful venture you will find an enthusiast. - Winston Churchill
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit
Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. - Bart Simpson
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. - Mariah Carey
At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. - Bono
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
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
Definition of an Irish fact: That which tells you not what is the case but what you want to hear. - Hugh Kenner
I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it. - Chris O'Dowd
The problem with being Irish is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times. - Roddy Doyle
I'm a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish lilt, too. - Emily Ratajkowski
Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved. - Mark Twain
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. - Sam Levenson
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
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
If another one of my Whole Food friends says my wife should have a home birth, I am going to punch all the soy on the planet. - Patton Oswalt
The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. - David Attenborough
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
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
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
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