Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.