Types of people Quote by David Walsh

“There are only three kinds of Irishmen who can't understand women. Young men, old men and men of middle age.”

— Elizabeth Berg

“We Irish are the only people in the world who are actually nostalgic about the future.”

— Joe Biden

“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.”

— Matthew Quick

“If there were only three Irishmen in the world you'd find two of them in a corner talking about the other.”

— Brandan Araoz Maria

“Irish has not so much a common formula as a common character.”

— Lew Bryson

“A driver had been sent to meet us. He was gray-haired, short, and nimble and introduced himself. "I am Patrick and so is every…

— Sharon Creech

“Do you know that an Irishman always respond to a question with another?" And the Irish guy replies "Who told you that?”

— Cathy Kelly

“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”

— James Joyce

What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.

— Seamus Heaney

I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who…

— Chris O'Dowd

“Surely there’s no need to abandon one’s reason simply because one is in Ireland.”

— J.G. Farrell

“Fortunately, at that time, Ireland wasn’t in the world. So we weren’t in the World War. Old Roundrims came up with that. Brilliant, really.…

— Niall Williams