Irish

Famous quotes containing the word irish:

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

“The Irish ... are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.”
—Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949)

“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)