History Quote by Kevin Hearne

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

— Elizabeth Berg

“Irish heroes, for one reason or another, have come off, it must be owned, but poorly before the bar of history.”

— Emily Lawless

“It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant.”

— James Joyce

“But it was always thus with Irishmen. Never, since the start of the world, has one of them taken a woman's sensible advice when…

— Eddie Lenihan

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

— Fiona Shaw

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

— Marianne Moore

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

I connect to the tradition of Irish storytelling. And I think there is something - I can't put my finger on it - something…

— Michael Connelly

“Well, they may not be civilized, but they are certainly confident--and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.”

— Thomas Cahill

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

— Henry David Thoreau

“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

“A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the…

— L.M. Montgomery