When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and I’m still discussing that with the Almighty, it will only be to save my arse.” Katie O’Reilly to Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn...

Irish poets, learn your trade,Sing whatever is well made.

I’m proud to be a Mick, even though I’m not Irish My middle name is Mickey, though. Actually, I’m lying.

Very special credit is due to the legendary Ed Ward, Founder and President of Irish Fest and to Jane Anderson, Director of Irish Fest. You both head up a remarkable team and deserve huge credit...

[Waiting for Godot] has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats. What’s more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first,...

To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It’s the only thing that lasts, that’s worth working for, for fighting for…

After a taste of a Scot, you’ll never look elsewhere again.”A brunette smiled seductively, “That’s quite a boast.””I’m quite a man.

The World Cup is a big opportunity for us. Before the Irish soccer team qualified for the World Cup in 1990, football was no way as big as it is now.

The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all changes at any time. In spite of hosts of deniers, and asserters, and...

There was always a big party on the night before anyone left for the States. They called it an American wake, because the whole community stayed up to keep the emigrants company through their last...

If it’s only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on.” Katie O’Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn in “Titanic Rhasody.

The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother...

Irish I were I wish, so being drunk all the time would be socially acceptable.

Some men never recover from education.

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding ‘like Princess Di’) but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine...

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

You’re a Scott,” the Dark said, his lips peeled back in displeasure, as if just saying the word was revolting.”And you’re Irish. I’m so glad we got that settled.

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can’t think of one at the moment.

Of course I do. I picked ye, didn’t I?

By now, he was also a ‘Protestant Atheist’, which he remained all his life.

Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels.” Titanic Rhapsody

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

If my last name were Bedient, I’d want to Irishize it and have you call me O’Bedient. Of course, just because you call me, doesn’t mean I’ll come.

For you can’t hear Irish tunes without knowing you’re Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.

I don’t think potatoes require muchgrazing room, genius,” she deadpanned.

…that it is not the literal past, the ‘facts’ of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

The History of Ireland in two words: Ah well. The Invasion by the Vikings: Ah well. The Invasion by the Normans. The Flight of the Earls, Mr Oliver Cromwell. Daniel O’Connell, Robert Emmett, The Famine,...

Lost: Heartbeat. Last seen being chased away by an Irishman’s shameless grin. Reward if returned.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

Hating is easy. It’s loving that’s hard

The Irish are a fair people- they never speak well of one another

The first permanent structure in Jacksonville was a school/saloon. It was built by the Irish.

dirty” before, I will compare it with dynamite in your ovaries. They say it with like, seven Rs.

Funny how I keep forgetting you’re insane.” – Colleen O’Brien

H. L Mencken’s Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either. They’re spannered, rat-arsed, cabbaged, and hammered; ruined, legless, scorched, and...

Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Corned beef and cabbage and leprechaun men.Colorful rainbows hide gold at their end.Shamrocks and clovers with three leaves plus one.Dress up in green—add a top hat for fun.Steal a quick kiss from the lasses in...

Atty’s eyes rested on Darby with all the subtlety of a dog watching his food bowl being filled!

She let her mind drift, thinking about new lingerie designs, wishing she’d brought along her sketchpad. Inspiration could strike at the most inconvenient times–in the shower, in the car, on this road–but she was grateful...

I appreciate the support, … This victory moves me closer to my goal to become the first Irish-born heavyweight champion of the world.

Cad é an mhaith dom eagla a bheith orm? Ní shaorfadh eagla duine ón mbás, dar ndóigh.

Love is a rainbow of emotion. My favorite part is the pot of gold and the Irish midget.

I’m Irish, so I’m used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I’ll call it dinner.

and…and…a gun. A big one.” – Colleen O’Brien

Bí ann nó astáimse ag triall Ortagus má tácuirim geasa Ortmé a shábháilón dreama deirgur fear fuarsa spéir Thú.

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda – no-one else is going to do...