Quotes About Irish

Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

There was an Irish space program to go to the sun. They went at night so they didn't get burnt.

My Irish mate told me, if you file down the edges of a 50 pence piece, you can use it as a 10p.

That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.

The thing I like about Irish whiskey is that the more you drink the smoother it goes down. Of course that's probably true of antifreeze as well, but illusion is nearly all we have.

You can't have it both ways. Either I'm Irish and can talk, or I'm a man and I can't.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

The blood feuds of today's Ulster— and their legacy in the journey of America's Scots-Irish— have their roots in a decision made in 1610 by King James I of England, who also reigned as James VI of Scotland, to form a Protestant plantation on Irish soil.

Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people

Anglo-Saxon and Irish saints and scholars played a vital role in the conversion of Europe, especially during the seventh and eighth centuries, and through them insular art influenced the work of early continental illuminators.

May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door. Irish blessing

May your neighbors respect you, Trouble neglect you, The angels protect you, And heaven accept you. Irish blessing

May your troubles be less And your blessings be more And nothing but happiness Come through your door. Irish blessing

May your troubles be as few and as far apart as my grandmother's teeth. Irish proverb

May those who love us, love us. And for those who don't love us, May God turn their hearts. And if he cannot turn their hearts, May he turn their ankles, So we may know them by their limping. Irish saying

1 Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral May you have no frost on your spuds, No worms on your cabbage. May your goat give plenty of milk. If you inherit a donkey, may she be in foal. Irish saying There's no denying the fact that my grandpa Aengus shaped the way I look at life. The man had a saying for everything. If I fell and scraped my knee, he mended it with an Irish proverb: "For every storm, a rainbow, for every tear, a smile." If I woke up with a head cold, he had an Irish

You're a right-looking eejit

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.

I saw my mother crying for the first time, which made a huge impression on me, when I came home from kindergarten, and she was watching TV because JFK - that Irish Catholic president that we loved - had been killed.

Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.

I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish.

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.