There are none better at slagging off Ireland and the Irish than the Irish themselves, its a part of Celtic culture, you slagg someone off and they return the compliment, the first to lose their temper or get flustered or can't think of a reply loses, theres none more quick witted than a celt,(Welsh don't and can't count) we'll call you all the names of the day and when you go off to sulk and cry we'll be baffled, didn't they see the glint in my eye? calling someone you are friendly with a wanker or a ballbag is totally acceptable, of course if you don't know them prepare to get decked.
I've decided to let some dead and some not as much dead Irish people do the work for a change, heres some quotes that are true today as they were whenever they were thought of.
Now Old Knudsen isn't going soft on the Mucksavages, I am well aware that being Scottish I share some Bogtrotter blood though a lot of it has come out in my shit recently (Blog = shit with blood) so I am well qualified to taunt the Fenian Fuckers until the cows come home.
Samuel Beckett
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
George Bernard Shaw
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen
naked women to get to a bottle of stout. Anonymous
For an Irishman, talking is a dance. Deborah Love
My one claim to originality among Irishmen is that I have never made a speech. George Moore
When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step. Gerald Kersh
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill. Harold Nicolson
The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent. Hugh Leonard
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. James Stephens
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
I'm troubled, I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish. Marianne Moore
