Ireland

St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time -- a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic.
         Adrienne Cook

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.
         Sigmund Freud (about the Irish)

Ireland is rich in literature that understands a soul's yearnings, and dancing that understands a happy heart.
         Margaret Jackson

The English language brings out the best in the Irish. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it bray with donkey laughter. They hurl it at the sky like a paint pot full of rainbows, and then make it chant a dirge for man’s fate and man’s follies that is as mournful as misty spring rain crying over the fallow earth.
         T E Kalem

The problem with Ireland is that it’s a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
         Hugh Leonard

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

O Ireland isn't it grand you look--
Like a bride in her rich adornin?
And with all the pent-up love of my heart
I bid you the top o' the mornin!
         John Locke "The Exile's Return"

Maybe it's bred in the bone, but the sound of pipes is a little bit of heaven to some of us.
         Nancy O'Keeefe

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.
         Sir John Pentland Mahaffy

I'm troubled, I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.
         Marianne Moore "Spenser's Ireland"

On she went, and her maiden smile
In safety lighted her round the Green Isle;
And blest forever was she who relied
Upon Erin's honor and Erin's pride.
         Thomas Moore

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
         John Millington Synge

Irish blessings, toasts, proverbs HERE