Quotes About Irish

Jewish resentment could be just as bad as the Irish resentment.

Maureen was a buxom, smiling redhead who had grown up something of a roughneck in an Irish-Slavic family in the Bronx and had a blunt way of talking that was

Oh, there's nothing worse than those damned, Pope-kissing, potato-sucking Irish.

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

May the Irish hills caress you. May her lakes and rivers bless you. May the luck of the Irish enfold you. May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.

Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat.

An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth.

If you're enough lucky to be Irish, you're lucky enough!

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.

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it is possible that the Irish word for 'I play the fox', sionnachuighim, is where the word 'shenanigans' comes from.

they couldn't abide the fact that the country was almost certainly founded by the Celts, who were just a little bit too close to the Irish for comfort.

I don't drink coffee," she said, taking a sip from her tea. "Coffee is for Americans and Protestants. Irish people should drink tea. That's how we were brought up after all. Give me a nice cup of Lyons and I'm content." "I don't mind the occasional cup of Barry's myself." "No, that's from Cork.

May the Irish hills caress you, may her lakes and rivers bless you, may the luck of the Irish enfold you, may the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you."

May your blessings outnumber the Shamrocks that grow. And may trouble avoid you Wherever you go. Happy St. Patrick's Day!

May the leprechauns be near you, to spread luck along your way. And may all the Irish angels, smile upon you on St. Patrick's Day.

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who'd died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning.

My first language is Gaelic.

Of course I have been watching 'Derry Girls!' Series, link and record! Everything shuts down when it is on the TV. I'm like 'Nobody speak.'

Go maire tu' I bhfad agus rath! 'Live long and prosper'.

Germans found American (by which they often meant Irish) bars and their drinking customs both peculiar and unhealthy.