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Irish Quotes by Thomas Cahill
- The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary.…
- In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of…
- The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters
- Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph,…
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- When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of… — Gerry Adams
- 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
- Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. — Brendan Behan
- If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. — Brendan Behan
- On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we… — Kate Adie
- At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very… — Bono
- But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was… — Bono
- That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the… — Lara Flynn Boyle
- My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I… — Jo Brand
- My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort… — Geraldine Brooks
- I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know. — Sandra Bullock
- Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than… — Jeb Bush