Irish Quotes

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)

Irish Alzheimer’s: you forget everything except the grudges.

Belfast, a city that every good Dubliner, except myself, despises and reviles.

An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.

An Irishman fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.