... Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!

... Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.

Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.

Religion dies hard in the Irish.