Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.