Cease Quote by Katharine Tynan

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

— Anne Enright

To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're…

— Malachy McCourt

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.

— Dervla Murphy

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

— Katharine Tynan

“1 Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral May you have no frost on your spuds, No worms on your cabbage. May your goat give plenty of milk. If you…

— Janice Thompson

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

— Elizabeth Berg

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

— Augustus Hare

“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.”

— Virginia Henley

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

— Samuel Johnson

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and…

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything…

— Douglas Hyde

Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about…

— Jane Jacobs