The Quable Irish

The Irish do not want anyone to hear them well; they want everyone to hear their enemies they.

When I get a very generous introduction like that, I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'd Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials. – Form U.S. General Barry McCaffrey

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to 1970 and then it most passed the twenty-first century. – Author John McGahern

We have always found the Irish a bit od. They refuse to be English. – Winston Churchill

Well, it takes all kinds of men to build a railroad. No sir, just us Irish.

• Railroad barons in “Dodge City,” Warner Bros., 1939 Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse. – George Bernard Shaw