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“To have come from Ireland no matter how long ago is to be of Ireland in some part forever.”
― Frank Delaney

“The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You, I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

“It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“I've never seen a nation more quick at finding joy in a sad situation than the Irish at a funeral.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“For a tiny speck in the Atlantic, Ireland has made an outsize contribution to world literature. It's a legacy we can all be proud of, one that would take many pages (or indeed a whole library of books) to recount in full.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You, I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

“Timeless
There’s a place in the far west of Ireland. A place called Mayo -- a rain-soaked, misty county on the wild Atlantic.

The name alone is of another time and conjures up mystery and myth. This is a place to disappear, to live unseen, where few questions are asked.

You can lose yourself in Mayo.”
― Dominic Geraghty, Sumerian Vortex: Music From A Lost Civilization

“Be it in the rough-and-tumble world of inner-city politics or the bare-knuckle boxing ring, the Irish rightly earned their fightin' moniker.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You, I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

“The Irish have played a part in every military conflict on American soil since the founding of the republic. Donegal-born Richard Montgomery was the first American general to lose his life in the Revolutionary War. In fact, one British major general at the time told the House of Commons that "half the rebel Continental Army was from Ireland.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You, I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

“James Joyce once called Guinness stout "the wine of Ireland." Indeed it's one of the most successful beers worldwide. Ten million glasses of this ambrosial liquid are consumed with great gusto each day.”
― Rashers Tierney

“The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin has a 9,000-year lease on its property at a perpetual rate of 45 pounds per year--one of the best bargains in Irish commercial history!”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You, I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

“The illicit Irish homemade spirit, poitin was frowned upon by the Catholic Church, which made its manufacture grave enough of a sin to require a bishop's absolution rather than that of the regular parish priest. Ah, the lengths the Irish will go to for "the demon drink!”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You, I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

“In Ireland we have the phenomenon known as a "Spoiled Priest." Unlike a spoiled child, this does not refer to a Priest throwing a temper tantrum.”
― J.P. Sexton

“Milly's narrative skill was considerable... she brought a scene to life by a chance descriptive detail in the right place and by that graphic and right placing of words which most of the Irish excel at. She had no Irish blarney, she never exaggerated. I could listen to Milly for hours.”
― Muriel Spark, A Far Cry from Kensington

“Lei è irlandese, signor O'Hara. Dimenticare per lei non è possibile."
"E lei è tedesco, signor Middlehoff. Per lei la memoria è sicuramente un peso.”
― Josephine Hart, The truth about love

“Alla fine tutto andò come va sempre. E, come succede sempre, col tempo la gente dimenticò, anche se dimenticare è un processo elettivo.”
― Josephine Hart, The truth about love

“If history belongs to the winners, legend belongs to the losers.”
― Mark Bulik, The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War