Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter
Lullabies, dreams, and love ever after.
Poems and songs with pipes and drums
A thousand welcomes when anyone comes.
That's the Irish for you! IRISH QUOTATIONS St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time -
a day to begin transforming
winter's dreams into summer's magic.
-Adrienne Cook Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
- Shane Leslie Ireland is where strange tales begin
and happy endings are possible.
-Charles Haughey The one thing us Irish have is the ability to laugh at ourselves.........God Bless us all
-Ann Kennedy When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
-Edna O'Brien O, love is the soul of a true Irishman; He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can, With his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green.
-John Locke When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good. The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone In the ring of this world, the most precious stone.
-William Drennan
Maybe it's bred in the bone,
but the sound of pipes is a little bit of heaven
to some of us.
-Nancy O'Keeefe This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
-Sigmund Freud (about the Irish) Ireland is rich in literature that understands a soul's yearnings, and dancing that understands a happy heart.
-Margaret Jackson O Ireland isn't it grand you look--
Like a bride in her rich adornin?
And with all the pent-up love of my heart
I bid you the top o' the mornin!
-John Locke "The Exile's Return" In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.
-Sir John Pentland Mahaffy I'm troubled, I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.
-Marianne Moore "Spenser's Ireland" It's not that the Irish are cynical.
It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
-Brendan Behan The Irish delight in stories, of whatever kind, because their telling and their reception are by now instinctive.
-William Trevor
An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.
-George Bernard Shaw For an Irishman, talking is a dance.
-Deborah Love On she went, and her maiden smile
In safety lighted her round the Green Isle;
And blest forever was she who relied
Upon Erin's honor and Erin's pride.
-Thomas Moore There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
-John Millington Synge | 
