Murphy showed up at Mass one Sunday and the priest almost fainted when he saw him. Murphy had never been seen in Church in his life. I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. - Colin Farrell The Danes and the Irish have a great simpatico. - Pierce Brosnan I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. - Robert Vaughn I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know. - Sandra Bullock 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 God is good to the Irish, but no one else is; not even the Irish. - Unknown Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland - rich and thick. - Samuel Beckett Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. - Bob Geldof The Irish are a very fair people, they never speak well of one another. - Unknown I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. - Brian Dennehy I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. - Orson Welles We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. - Oscar Wilde I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big. - Bill O'Reilly The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood 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'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. - Peter O'Toole The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill. - Harold Nicolson Irish boomerang: It doesn't come back, it just sings sad songs about how much it wants to. - Unknown I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. - Robin Williams I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. - Kate Flannery Let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. - Liam Neeson Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. - Thomas Kettle Definition of an Irish fact: That which tells you not what is the case but what you want to hear. - Hugh Kenner I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting. - Pierce Brosnan 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 I have Dementia My responses may be slow. Take your time and wait for me, It means more than you can know! - Unknown 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 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 I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. - Iris Murdoch When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. - Unknown 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 With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways. - Pierce Brosnan 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 Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Why do you Irish always answer a question with a question?", New York Mayor Al Smith: "Do we now?" - Franklin D Roosevelt see also Nationality & Religious Sections Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s? Alzheimer’s Wing Corn Maze For Old People Manitoba Health Care's Test For Alzheimer's You Never Call Flooded Ireland Streets Going Green for Ireland Green Beards Habby Sin Pad-Riggs Dey! 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