Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you. — Charles Haughey Copy Share Image
Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
Let no man write my epitaph. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence… — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
The immigrant's heart marches to the beat of two quite different drums, one from the old homeland and the other from the… — Mary McAleese Copy Share Image
We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom,… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish… — Barry McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
'A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart? — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
