The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society you're funny.

If this humor be the safety of our race then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally there are exceptions... the Jewish Italian and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

Irish fiction is full of secrets guilty pasts divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

Even when they have nothing the Irish emit a kind of happiness a joy.

When others stood idly by you and your families gave your all in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

They won't break me because the desire for freedom and the freedom of the Irish people is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic Italian-Irish family in Philly.