#irish

The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#culture #irish #large #love #part

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever. ↗

— William Nicholson

#irish #just #lad #much #plastic

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill. ↗

— Harold Nicolson

#everyone #ill #irish #their #them

There are not many Irish people playing tennis! ↗

— Goran Ivanisevic

#irish people #many #people #playing #tennis

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything. ↗

— Dan Savage

#because #house #i #irish #lot

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#african #annoying #being #cowboy #cowboy hat

Children play at being great and wonderful people, at the ambitions they will put away for one reason or another before they grow into ordinary men and women. Mankind as a whole had a like dream once; everybody and nobody built up the dream bit by bit, and the ancient story-tellers are there to make us remember what mankind would have been like, had not fear and the failing will and the laws of nature tripped up its heels. The Fianna and their like are themselves so full of power, and they are set in a world so fluctuating and dream-like, that nothing can hold them from being all that the heart desires." from a preface to Gods and Fighting Men by Lady Augusta Gregory ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#dreams

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse. ↗

— Jack Lynch

#injured #innocent #innocent people #irish #longer

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#despite #english #fact #i #i think

Kate giggled. “Excellent choice.” “I always make excellent choices.” “I don’t know about that.” “Of course I do. I picked ye, didn’t I? ↗

— Whitney K.E.

#love #romance #romance-funny #romance-love #romance-novels