"Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth." — Irish Proverb

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• My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style.… — Geraldine Brooks
• I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know. — Sandra Bullock
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