Articles Quote by Mary Deasy

“A real Irishman will give everything of himself--except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples.”

— Jim Tully Beggars Abroad

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

— Anne Enright

“What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person…

— Frank Delaney

“No genuine Irishman could relax in comfort and feel at home in a pub unless he was sitting in deep gloom on a hard…

— Flann O'Brien

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“He said you have to be on the side of the losers, the people with bad lungs. You have to be with those who…

— Hugo Hamilton

“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…

— Thomas Cahill

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

— Fiona Shaw

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

— Emily Lawless

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

— Augustus Hare

“An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.”

— George Bernard Shaw