The Irish people do not gladly suffer common sense.
Oliver St. John Gogarty

Had you English not persecuted the Catholics in Ireland … the greatest number of them would before now have become Protestants.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Give an Irishman lager for a month, and he’s a dead man. An Irishman is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.
Mark Twain

I’m troubled, I’m dissatisfied. I’m Irish.
Marianne Moore

Ireland is rich in literature that understands a soul’s yearnings, and dancing that understands a happy heart.
Margaret Jackson

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. Divine Providence has a mission for her children to fulfill; though a mission unrecognized by political economists. There is ever a moral balance preserved in the universe, like the vibrations of the pendulum. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.
Lydia M. Child (1802-1880)

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication.
Lord Byron

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
John Millington Synge

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