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.”
I am very proud to be Irish. - Philip Treacy
I'm Irish. We think sideways. - Spike Milligan
The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley
My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong
I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. - Lynn Collins
Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. - Norman Reedus
Bless your little Irish heart and every other Irish part. - Irish Blessings
Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. - Unknown
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
One year they wanted to make me poster boy - for birth control. - Rodney Dangerfield
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana
God is good to the Irish, but no one else is; not even the Irish. - Unknown
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty
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 most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids. - Jill Bensley
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit
Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness
Wherever you go and whatever you do, may the luck of the Irish be there with you. - Irish Blessings
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. - Mariah Carey
There are only two kinds of people in the world: the Irish and those who wish they were. - Irish Saying
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. - Norman Mailer
I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. - Robin Williams
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley
I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting. - Pierce Brosnan
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 curse of the Irish is not that they don't know the words to a song - its that they know them all. - Susan Dooley
A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison
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
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
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Unknown
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 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
I'm Irish. We think sideways. - Spike Milligan
The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley
My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. - Dido Armstrong
I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint. - Lynn Collins
Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun. - Norman Reedus
Bless your little Irish heart and every other Irish part. - Irish Blessings
Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. - Unknown
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
One year they wanted to make me poster boy - for birth control. - Rodney Dangerfield
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana
God is good to the Irish, but no one else is; not even the Irish. - Unknown
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. - Winston Churchill
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. - Stendhal
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty
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 most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids. - Jill Bensley
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. - Victoria Smurfit
Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. - Martin McGuinness
Wherever you go and whatever you do, may the luck of the Irish be there with you. - Irish Blessings
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. - Mariah Carey
There are only two kinds of people in the world: the Irish and those who wish they were. - Irish Saying
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world. - Norman Mailer
I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. - Robin Williams
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley
I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting. - Pierce Brosnan
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 curse of the Irish is not that they don't know the words to a song - its that they know them all. - Susan Dooley
A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. - Van Morrison
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
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
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Unknown
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 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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