Quotes About Irish

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Sinn Fein,' 'Ourselves alone

But no parties could live under such labels as Petitioners and Abhorrers. Instead of naming themselves they named each other. The term "Whig" had described a sour, bigoted, canting, money-grubbing Scots Presbyterian. Irish Papist bandits ravaging estates and manor-houses had been called "Tories." Neither

El genio irlandés Parnell sabía la respuesta, pero nadie le formularía la pregunta.

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

Mairidh mo ghaol gu siorraidh, Ivy Calhoun," he says, and I already know that means "I'll love you forever.

She cared for Britain. It took a lot for an Irish Catholic woman to say that. But she thought it was better to live in the agony of a permanent mental and physical cauldron than die slowly of television.

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

Leaving Inishmore' by Michael Longley, from Selected Poems (1998, p.22). What

All that air," you repeated. "You are funny." "No. I'm just Irish.

Ghost?" St. Vincent shot him an incredulous glance. "Christ. You're not serious, are you?" "I'm a Gypsy," Cam replied matter-of-factly. "Of course I believe in ghosts." "Only half Gypsy. Which led me to assume that the rest of you was at least marginally sane and rational." "The other half is Irish," Cam said a touch apologetically. "Christ," St. Vincent said again, shaking his head as he strode away.

The revelations of the Cloyne report have brought the government, Irish Catholics, and the Vatican to an unprecedented juncture.

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

I got makeup tests and hair tests for 'Versailles,' and the main thing they were obsessed with was that my hands were disgusting. I had three years of Irish dirt under my nails. I had to have manicures and everything.

Observe the Baltimore Irish Catholic in his natural environment, eating soft ice cream and onion rings after a movie.

A spy in what her mother called the land of Mackerel Snappers and Shanty Irish.

At least, not until she met Patrick Casey, who proved that the charm of the Irish was not just a cliche.

Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

Lugh Lámhfada, Lugh of the Long Hand, the senior of the gods and patron of all arts and crafts, was eventually demoted into Lugh-chromain, "stooping Lugh", and from there Anglicized into "leprechaun".

Her smile increased. She had perfect white regular teeth; Irish, Juliana decided. Only Irish blood could give that jawline such femininity.