Every St. Patrick’s Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
That’s what the holidays are for – for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn’t that the Irish way?
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.