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“Bí ann nó as
táimse ag triall Ort

agus má tá
cuirim geasa Ort
mé a shábháil
ón dream
a deir
gur fear fuar
sa spéir Thú.”
― Caitlín Maude, Dánta, Drámaíocht agus Prós

“I’m Irish. Being both Catholic and a pirate are almost obligatory.”
― India Holton, The League of Gentlewomen Witches

“You could simply tell them you prefer silver." For this is the customary offering in Ireland, at least for the courtly fae. Almost every species of Folk disdains human metals, yet the Irish fae are unique in their ability to tolerate---and, indeed, to love---silver. It is said that they fill their vast, dark forests with silver mirrors like jewels, which drink in the little sun and starlight that penetrates the boughs and reflect it back at the will of the Folk; it is also said that they use silver to construct fantastical staircases that wind up and up those vast trunks, and bridges that hang between them like delicate necklaces.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“Are you away with the fairies?”
― Morgan Jane Mitchell, Kissin Irish

“It’s like a walk in Jurassic Park; you’re on alert, waiting for the shadows of the past to devour you alive.”
― Anna Rajmon, ELIS: Irish call girl

“â€� Connell fa spesso commenti irriflessivi a proposito di quello che vorrebbe. Vorrei che non te ne dovessi andare, dice quando lei si congeda, o vorrei che potessi restare a dormire. Se davvero volesse una di queste cose, Marianne ne è consapevole, allora succederebberoâ€�”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“It’s funny â€� you Irish are so like the Serbs.”
― Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

“When the aged countrywoman stands at her door in the evening and, in her own words, 'looks at the mountains and thinks of the goodness of God,' God is all the nearer because the pagan powers are not far: because northward in Ben Bulben, famous for hawks, the white square door swings open at sundown, and those wild unchristian riders rush forth upon the fields, while southward the White Lady, who is doubtless Maive herself, wanders under the broad cloud nightcap of Knocknarea.”
― W.B. Yeats

“ah' he says 'I didn't think you had the local accent.' I wonder what he expects. Top o' the morning and to be sure, to be sure and shamrocks and leprechauns”
― Lucy Foley, The Guest List

“An ambition to squint
At my verses in print
Makes me hope that for these you'll find room
If you so condescend
Then please place at the end
The name of yours truly, L. Bloom”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy and shame: we are a hyphenated people.”
― Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

“Your feet will lead you where your heart is.”
― Irish proverb

“Either way,â€� Aodhán cut in, “it’s a lot like lacrosse—have you seen lacrosse?—it’s like lacrosse and American football had an unholy Irish baby.
Beneath a Stone Sky”
― A E Lowan

“My mother told me a million times that Ireland and the Irish people were special, and that the O'Cadhain family in particular was the most blessed of all because it had been imposed upon without cease since the dawn it sprung up in Galway. For centuries they had been in training to have nothing, so everything was more or less working perfectly according to God's plan.”
― Kaye Gibbons, A Cure for Dreams

“Pintman Paddy Losty.
Some of Dublin's great pintmen have been known to put away thirty pints or more in a day”
― Kevin C. Kearns, Dublin Pub Life and Lore: An Oral History

“Kitty O’Kane dreamed of a kind husband and a just life; what she had was haddock water for supper and a dribble of her own blood, seen at close quarters, on the toe of her father’s scuffed boot.”
― Colin Falconer, The Unkillable Kitty O'Kane

“St' Patrick's Day is all about being Irish and celebrating life as only the Irish know how.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Swords and Spears of Light appear in the Irish and Welsh belief systems. Many of these Gods and Goddesses belonged to a family called the “Tuatha De Danaan.â€� Their name means “Family of the Goddess Danu.â€� They arrived in Ireland in ships that floated in the air. Ogma, known as the “Splendor of the Sun,â€� brought the Sword of Light from Findrias. Findrias is the cloud-fair city that is in the east of the Tuatha De Danaan world.”
― Laurence Galian

“Many of my friends and colleagues call me 'Sideways' on account of my rarely being upright in posture.”
― Lee Sheridan

“I’m talking mashed potatoes. Roast potatoes. Sweet potatoes. Potato casserole. Those thinly sliced potatoes with that cheese sauce on them. Potato salad, even.â€�
“Jimmy?� Dallas says with a startlingly sweet smile. “Yeah?�
“Shut the hell up about potatoes.�
“But they’re the best part of Thanksgiving dinner! Everyone knows that.�
“It’s my Irish blood, makes me love the things. Can’t get enough of ‘em.�
“Binge-watching Collin Farrell movies while youeat Lucky Charms doesn’t make you Irish, dumbass,� he grouches.
“I dress up for St. Patrick’s day, too,� Triple J responds, defensive.
I swivel from where I’m removing my shin guards to peer at him. “What the hell do you dress up as for St. Patrick’s day?�
He shakes his head at me like I’m incredibly stupid for asking this. “A leprechaun, of course.�
Dallas grins. “Surely you don’t even need a costume for that one.”
― Katie Bailey, Season's Schemings

“It wasn't thirst for the drink that made us want to go where it was, but only the need to have a merry night instead of the misery that we knew only too well before. What the drop of drink did to us was to lift up the hearts in us, and we would spend a day and a night ever and again in company together when we got the chance.”
― Tomas O'Crohan, The Islandman

“That's one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he'll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he'll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman -- if he ever knew, he has forgotten. 'Move on!' you tell us. 'Move on! Forget what we've done to you. Tomorrow's another day!' But it isn't, Mr. Brue. Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That's the point I was making to you. And the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.”
― John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man

“I'm thirty years old, and I have signed five separate divorce papers.

None of them were mine. Don't worry. I was merely autographing the papers of people whose divorces I've caused. They lined up, in the rain, to meet me and thank me for causing their breakup and then asked me to sign the papers as a memento of their lives - which they said I had saved. Like a white Jesus.

If that opening doesn't get you to buy this book, then honestly, just put it down and fuck off. It's not for you. I don't even want you to read it. Have a wonderful life.

Still here? Brialliant. Thanks for the money.”
― Daniel Sloss, Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life

“The king considered all this very carefully;
he was not inclined to anger, like the Irish,
who make everything twice as bad as it is.”
― Heldris de Cornualles

“To cheer up my Irish mother I did the Riverdance, which my Mom laugh but made my shins cry.”
― Mark Steven Porro, A Cup of Tea on the Commode: My Multi-Tasking Adventures of Caring for Mom. And How I Survived to Tell the Tale

“On-screen, he was handsome in a fey kind of way, pale-skinned and wiry and high-cheekboned. But in person, with his wide mouth smiling and his eyes crinkled in laughter? He was mischievous Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream, with hair like an autumn bonfire hanging down to his jaw and silvery green eyes. All he needed was a crown of leaves, and to be bare chested instead of wearing a holey old band T-shirt.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, The Slowest Burn

“Girl," Vanessa said. "You're in an Irish bar. It wouldn't surprise me if they mixed whiskey with stout and tried to pass it as Chardonnay.”
― Anna Marie Riley, In Plain Sight

“What if I told you that there is supernatural evil in this world and I’m one of the few who can do something about it?”
― Philip Henry, Vampire Twilight

“I am the voice of the silenced. I am the fist of the weak. I am the rage of the helpless. I am the slayer of giants and the king of the night.”
― Philip Henry, Freak

“You’ve walked among us too long. Too many of our loved are in their graves because of you and your kind. No more.”
― Philip Henry, Vampire Equinox