“ My people - before I was changed - they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It's a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty... and the heart... Well, you know... W… Joss Whedon
“ Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. William Butler Yeats
“ Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have f… Peter Hitchens
“ The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was… Samuel Beckett
“ All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. Samuel Beckett
“ I'm not singing for the future I'm not dreaming of the past I'm not talking of the fist time I never think about the last Shane MacGowan
“ The writing style which is most natural for you is bound to echo the speech you heard when a child. English was the novelist Joseph Conrad's third language, and much of that seems piquant in his use o… Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“ Oh, now my Erin, she'd smile down on me no matter where I walked. Grandpop smiled that little smile again. But I'd be separated from her, and I'd feel that separation in my soul, you see?Nathan shook… Lora Leigh
“ Oh, trust me Sydney Tar Ponds, you aren’t the first Personification to be forgotten by somebody ordinary, Mearth sighed with a falsely-reassuring smile. Alecto stepped back from her, glaring hatefully… Rebecca McNutt
“ A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats. L.M. Montgomery
“ I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others. Stewart Stafford
“ Irish people marry late, as a rule. We have that potato-famine DNA from the old country, that mentality where you don't give birth to anything until you have the potatoes all stored up to feed it. My… Rob Sheffield
“ It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. Brendan Behan
“ He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be s… Alexander McCall Smith
