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
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. - James Joyce
There are not many Irish people playing tennis. - Goran Ivanisevic
An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral. - Mary Deasy
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself. - Erich Fromm
Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at? - Elizabeth Bowen
My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. - Joan Rivers
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
My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? - Carroll O'Connor
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer
One year they wanted to make me poster boy - for birth control. - Rodney Dangerfield
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
My Birth Certificate is so old, it's written in Roman Numerals. - Bill Carter
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. - Fiona Shaw
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. - Brendan Behan
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. - Ben Nicholson
Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born? - Benny Hill
Wherever you go and whatever you do, may the luck of the Irish be there with you. - Irish Blessings
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. - Oscar Wilde
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
The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood
Jameson's Irish Whiskey really does improve with age: the older I get the more I like it. - Bob Monkhouse
Irish boomerang: It doesn't come back, it just sings sad songs about how much it wants to. - Unknown
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
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad.
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. - G K Chesterton
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
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
Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth, for she has held a star. - Larry Barratto
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
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
My soul is still Irish. - Ciaran Hinds
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. - James Joyce
There are not many Irish people playing tennis. - Goran Ivanisevic
An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral. - Mary Deasy
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself. - Erich Fromm
Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at? - Elizabeth Bowen
My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on. - Joan Rivers
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
My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? - Carroll O'Connor
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer
One year they wanted to make me poster boy - for birth control. - Rodney Dangerfield
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
My Birth Certificate is so old, it's written in Roman Numerals. - Bill Carter
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. - Fiona Shaw
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. - Brendan Behan
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. - Ben Nicholson
Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born? - Benny Hill
Wherever you go and whatever you do, may the luck of the Irish be there with you. - Irish Blessings
The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights. - Will Rogers
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. - Oscar Wilde
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
The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood
Jameson's Irish Whiskey really does improve with age: the older I get the more I like it. - Bob Monkhouse
Irish boomerang: It doesn't come back, it just sings sad songs about how much it wants to. - Unknown
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
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. - Phil Donahue
The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad.
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. - G K Chesterton
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
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
Babies are bits of stardust, blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman who knows the pangs of birth, for she has held a star. - Larry Barratto
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
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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