Irish American Mayors

Famous quotes containing the words irish american, irish and/or american:

    “Irish Americans are about as Irish as black Americans are African.”
    —Bob Geldof (b. 1954)

    “I was the rector’s son, born to the anglican order,
    Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;
    The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept
    With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)

    “Were they to emigrate in a body to man the navies of the moon, almost every thing would stop here on earth except its revolution on its axis, and the orators in the American Congress.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)