Family Quote by Patricia Morais

“ “Do you really think banshees were beautiful before they died?  It's part of their power.  They're sort of like sirens, only they don't lure…

— K.C. Blake

“It is one of their beauties, the Irish, the way they crush and expand the language all at once How they mangle it and…

— Colum McCann

“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark…

— Eilis Flynn

“The Irish are a merry race and surely they are mad, for all their wars are merry and all their songs are sad.” The”

— Michael Capuzzo

“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

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

— Matthew Quick

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

— James Joyce

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

— Cathy Kelly

“This was like National Lampoon's Vacation, but with death, property destruction, and an Irish accent.”

— Abigail Roux

“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.”

— Thomas Adcock

“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

“We Irish know how to make the most of the times of plenty, for sure enough they'll be famine again.”

— Karen Marie Moning