Irish

Famous quotes containing the word irish:

“The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.”
—Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)

“I hope you will not be washed away by the Irish sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)