Irish Tidbits

 

 

From: Oxsan
Date: 18 Jun 2001
Time: 19:25:37

The following items were pulled willy-nilly from a book of Irish quotations for your reading pleasure. Frequent use of the delete key will hardly worsen the California energy crisis.

Shortly before 1880 a Board of Education, which was called the Intermediate board, was set up in England. That board would have had no place for Irish if my friend and neighbor, the O'Connor Don, had not obtained a place for the language when the bill was going through the English Parliament. The bill said that the Board was permitted to examine students in Latin, Greek and French--"and in Celtic" shouted the O'Connor Don from the floor "All right", they said, fed up with the whole business, "All right, in Celtic too". "Celtic" was a nice respectable word that wouldn't frighten anyone. If he had said "Irish" I doubt if he would have succeeded. Irish and Celtic are identical--a fact I doubt that many in the Parliament of England knew.
From The League and I

Hunger makes a good sauce.
Old Irish folk saying

The courts are open to anyone - like the Ritz.
Dr. Noel Browne

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke (about American taxation)

The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.
Dr. Samuel Johnson

Work is the curse of the drinking class.
Oscar Wilde

God's choicy about the company he keeps and never comes near Derry.
Patrick McGill

The Catholics take their beliefs table d'hote and the Protestants theirs a la carte. Thomas Kettle

Love

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