Irish people

What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only after we have left home; it is really only with other people that we become Irishmen.

— Irish people

Stony seaboard, far and foreign, The last of Europe's stone age race.

— Irish people

Every Irishman has a potatoe in his head.

— Irish people

I never touch a drop when I'm happy. But it's a well-known fact that Irishmen are never happy.

— Irish people

The Irish are not in a conspiracy to cheat the world by false representations of the merits of their countrymen. No, sir, the Irish are a fair people—they never speak well of one another.

— Irish people