The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. No, Sir; the Irish are a fair people; – they never speak well of one another.
Irish Quotes
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
Ireland is the sow that eats her own farrow.
They call Belfast the Irish Liverpool. If people are for calling names, it would be better to call it the Irish London at once – the chief city of the kingdom at any rate. It looks hearty, thriving, and prosperous, as if it had money in its pockets and roast-beef for dinner: it has no […]
Freudians say that the Irish are the only race impervious to psychoanalysis. Dreams is it you’re wanting now? Sure, I can tell you some lovely ones.
We (Irish) are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be till the end of the chapter.
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, It’s with O’Leary in the grave.
Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is. Set down in Ireland, one might at least feel, ‘Here is thy problem: In God’s name what wilt thou do with it?’
We have had too much God in ireland. Away with God.
I am of Ireland and of the holy land of Ireland Good Sir, I pray thee, for the Saint of Charity, Come and dance with me In Ireland. (Said to be the oldest fragment of verse in the English language)
