“A real Irishman will give everything of himself--except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples.” — Jim Tully Beggars Abroad Copy Share Image
An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The barman looks at them and says: "Is this some kind… — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
There were two Irishmen eating sandwiches in a pub and the landlord said: "You can't eat your own food in here." So… — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible… — Eddie Lenihan Copy Share Image
Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English. — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You're a good Irishman, right?" When Butch nodded, V said, "Irish, Irish… let me think. Yeah…" Vishous's eyes sobered, and in a… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in,… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics.… — Mary Deasy Copy Share Image
“In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it. — Edward Augustus Freeman Copy Share Image
Now it's a war on women; tomorrow it's going to be a war on left-handed Irishmen or something like that. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. — Shane Leslie Copy Share Image
I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman. — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best. — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near… — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused. — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry? — John Ford Copy Share Image
Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't know if that's because… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
On golfer Rory McIlroy's collapse in the final round of the 2011 Masters: We had hoped to compare the young Northern Irishman… — Matt Dickinson Copy Share Image
I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of… — Ian Paisley Copy Share Image
I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils… — Wolfe Tone Copy Share Image
Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image