Submitted for your approval–the curious case of Colleen O’Brien and thegorgeous time traveling Scot who landed in her living room.” – Rod Serling

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.

I’ve heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.

The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama.

Bailey went quiet, her expression softening. “You’re right,” she finally said. “It wouldn’t have been smart.””Well, fuck me — are you actually admitting that I was right about something?””It’s like an eclipse,” she muttered. “Happens...

Irish is entitled to parity of esteem. But that does not mean parity of print runs. Semi-state companies were forced to print equal numbers of Irish and English versions of annual reports, when there was...

Author? Author? Did you write these legs?”Yes.”‘Well, I don’t like dem. I don’t like ’em at all at all. I could ha’ writted better legs meself.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I’m English.

An cinniúnt, is dócha: féach an féileacán úd thall atá ag foluain os cionn mo choinnle. Ní fada go loiscfear a sciatháin mhaiseacha: cá bhfios dúinne nach bhfuil a fhios sin aige, freisin?

What you are is a freaking estrogen magnet.

He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be...

As I told Piers Morgan, ‘Catholics have confession, whereas Northern Irish Protestants only have interviews.’

Irish improves a poet.

Is he always like this?” she said irritably. “Flying by the seat of his pants?””Pretty much, yeah.” Oliver grinned. “He’s not a planner. But he happens to be the best improviser I’ve ever known.

My people – before I was changed – they exchanged this as a sign of devotion. It’s a Claddagh ring. The hands represent friendship; the crown represents loyalty… and the heart… Well, you know… Wear...

The British and Irish remain hopeful all the same that some of the presidential stardust will rub off.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.

Happy now? That fiery enough for you?

Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.

Off y’go, then. Kill every last one o’ the bastards and call me in the mornin’.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Emerald Isle” because there are lots of precious stones found there, such as sapphires and rubies.

He’s the quintessential interpreter of Irish songs.

Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.

I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

But I wasn’t creeping.

I am disappointed that James has decided to end his association with Bath Rugby and join London Irish, however I wish him well for the future.

The worst thing is to be in love with one man and have to marry another.”Katie O’Reilly to the Countess of Marbury in “Titanic Rhapsody

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long...

The gun is not out of Irish politics.

You’re my forever girl.

… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never having...

Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.

Well, you’re Irish and Jewish. You have to feel guilty over somethin’, don’t ya? Take the money and be happy ye have it.

…twenty.” – Faolán MacIntyre

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...