#iris

I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. ↗

— Edmund Barton

#conducted #connection #fort #given #i

If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it. ↗

— Shirley Abbott

#scotch-irish #strength #intelligence

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#another #dispute #holidays #irish #person

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman. ↗

— John Bright

#catholic #episcopalian #i #i am #irishman

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either. ↗

— James Callaghan

#citizen #either #injustice #ireland #irish

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine? ↗

— Frank Carson

#boot #car #engine #heard #into

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

#heart #irish #never #our

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality. ↗

— Rich Little

#i #interested #kid #mannerisms #more

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#consider #even #family #french #i

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs. ↗

— David Low

#critics #defer #feelings #finer #held