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#1

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: anti-patriotism, identity, nation, nationalism, politics

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#2

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: bernard-shaw, irish, pigs, pointlessness

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#3

“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.”
― Iris Murdoch

tags: feminism, ireland, irish, women

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#4

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
― William Butler Yeats

tags: irish, irish-writer, joy, tragedy, william-butler-yeats

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#5

“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

tags: apocalypse, ireland, irish

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#6

“Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.”
― Alex Levine

tags: alcohol, drinking, food-groups, humor, irish

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#7

“The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: ireland, irish, lyrical, sea

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#8

“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse

tags: humor, irish, song, war

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#9

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money

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#10

“The typical Irish peasant ate about 10 pounds of potatoes each day and soon towered in physical size over their rural English equivalents who mainly ate bread.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

tags: irish-famine, irish-history, potato-famine

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#11

“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

tags: fighting-irish, irish-culture, irish-history, irish-in-america

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#12

“On St. Patrick's Day, the traditional Irish family would rise early and find a solitary sprig of shamrock to put on their somber Sunday best. Then they'd spend the morning in church listening to sermons about how thankful they should be that St. Patrick saved such a bunch of ungrateful sinners. Nobody wore green clothing as it was considered an unlucky color not suitable for church.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

tags: irish-history, irish-humor, irish-trivia, st-patrick-s-day

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#13

“Whether serving in the military, building industry, organizing politically, or making their way in any other part of American culture, the Irish were determined to create a free and prosperous life for themselves. This Irish-American struggle led to social and political progress for all Americans.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

tags: irish-america, irish-culture-irish-in-american, irish-history

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#14

“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

tags: irish-america, irish-culture, irish-in-american, us-military-history

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#15

“With our gift for language and willingness to stand up and be counted, as well as heaps of charm and charisma, we Irish have long been an integral part of American political life.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

tags: irish-america, irish-history, irish-in-america, irishmen

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#16

“It's often said that "the Irish built America. The truth is, not only did they build it, they also manufactured, repaired, and cleaned it, especially in the decades before and after the potato famine.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

tags: irish-america, irish-history, irish-writer, irishmen

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#17

“In 1903, Sir James Power, Lord Mayor of Dublin, was surprised to note on a transatlantic trip that the typical Irish immigrant in America was now "not merely a hewer of wood and a drawer of water." In fact, he remarked that they are "found occupying...respectable positions in society.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

tags: irish-america, irish-history, irish-writer, irishmen

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#18

“In the 1870s it was estimated that a third of all the money in the Irish economy came from money sent by kindhearted Irish servant girls to their families. The Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank in New York alone would send more than $30 million to Ireland between 1850 and 1880. Many families in Ireland owed their survival to what they gratefully called the "American Letter," a lifeline that helped them cope with brutal poverty and lack of opportunity.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

tags: irish, irish-america, irish-history, irish-women, irish-writer, irishmen

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#19

“Cork-born Mother Jones was renowned as a dramatic orator who relished props, curses, and all kinds of attention-getting tactics--sound at all Irish to you? She exaggerated her age, referring to strikers not too much younger than herself as "my boys" and donning frumpish costumes to emphasize her "motherly appearance.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

tags: irish, irish-america, irish-history, irish-in-america, irish-writer, irishmen

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#20

“Nellie Cashman, from Midleton, County Cork, made a mint providing "bed, board, and booze" to the gold and silver miners all over the western US and Canada. She was a prodigious entrepreneur, running and owning numerous stores, restaurants, and hotels in various mining settlements. While working the bar of her hotel, canny Nellie was able to buy a number of very lucrative mines by discretely listening to the gossip of drunken prospectors.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

tags: irish-america, irish-history, irish-in-america, irish-in-the-west, irish-women, irish-writer, irishmen

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#21

“Scarlett O'Hara's father, Thomas, is an Irish immigrant who names his plantation Tara, after the home of the High Kings in Ireland. In an appealing nod to the "luck of the Irish," we read that Thomas O'Hara won his lands in a card game!”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

tags: irish-america, irish-history, irish-in-the-south, irish-writer, irishmen

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#22

“Mr.s Kennedy toiled as a domestic servant and used her savings to start a notions and stationery store, which she gradually and skillfully expanded. Bridget's hard work and sacrifice, making her way as a widow in a strange land, established the funds her son P.J. Kennedy used to finance his liquor business. This enterprise was to become the basis of the family's future progress and put Bridget's descendants on a path that dazzled America and forever changed the political scene.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

tags: irish-america, irish-history, irish-in-america, irish-women

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#23

“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

tags: guinness, irish-culture, irish-history

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#24

“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

tags: guinness, irish-culture, irish-history, irish-trivia

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#25

“Like so many things in life, a well-poured pint of Guinness is worth waiting for.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

tags: drinking-alcohol, drinking-quotes, guiness, irish-and-drink

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#26

“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

tags: drinking-alcohol, drinking-quotes, irish-culture, irish-drink, irish-history, poitin, potcheen

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#27

“Sean's Bar on Main Street, Athlone, on the West Bank of the River Shannon, claims to be the oldest pub in Ireland, dating back to AD 900. The bar holds records of every owner since its opening, including gender-bending pop sensation Boy George (born George Alan O'Dowd to an Irish family), who the premises briefly in 1987”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

tags: drinking-quotes, irish, irish-and-alcohol, irish-pub

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#28

“To be certain you're consuming the real deal, look carefully at the label. W-h-i-s-k-e-y indicates the heavenly liquid from the Emerald Isle. Without the "e," it's from Scotland or some other godforsaken place.”
― Rashers Tierney, F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome

tags: drinking, drinking-quotes, irish-alcohol, irish-whiskey, scotch

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#29

“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

tags: irish, irish-culture, irish-history, irish-storytelling, story

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#30

“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

tags: irish-culture, irish-history, irish-literature, irish-writers

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