Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or word:
“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)
“Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)