Irish Set Dancing

Famous quotes containing the words irish, set and/or dancing:

    “The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    “When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn’t have the end without them.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)