Tipperary Quotes

“We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the "story" part of the word "history," and we love it trimmed out with color and drama, ribbons and bows. Listen to our tunes, observe a Celtic scroll: we always decorate our essence.”
― Frank Delaney, Tipperary

“A thing doesn't have to be true, he said, for a person to get joy out of it. What it has to be is not evil or malicious.”
― Frank Delaney, Tipperary

“Oliver Cromwell chose not to bring his marauders over here because one of his generals had reported that the country west of the Shannon contained “not enough water to drown a man, wood enough to hang one, nor earth enough to bury him.”
― Frank Delaney, Tipperary

“I'll tell you when I first noticed land. I noticed it on my hands and knees, and I was only about ten years old. And I began to see how the colour of the clay under my hands wasn't one colour at all, but several colours.
"Well," I thought "this is like a bit of magic". And I began to think: "What else is like this? What else in the world is anything like this?" And I couldn't think of anything!
And to this day I don't know of anything like the earth, especially when you dig into it.”
― Frank Delaney, Tipperary