Irish Protestant

Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or protestant:

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

“So the old flute was doomed and its fate was pathetic,
‘Twas fastened and burned at the stake as heretic,
While the flames roared around it they heard a strange
noise—
‘Twas the old flute still whistling ‘The Protestant Boys’.”
—Unknown. The Old Orange Flute (l. 37–40)