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March 16, 2016 By Meg Waite Clayton

5 Irish-leaning Quotes (and 2 Songs) to Celebrate St. Patrick's Day

TypewriterImaWriterI’ve collected a few nice Irish quotes — and two versions of one Irish song — to go with your silly hats and green beer. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” – W.B. Yeats
“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.” – Edna O’Brien
“I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time.” – Iris Murdoch
“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.” – G.K. Chesterton
“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.” – Daniel Patrick Moynihan

And, because the one thing the Irish do as well as anyone (in addition to writing, and of course drinking) is singing, here’s a double hitter of “When Irish Eyes are Smiling” — sung by Bing Crosby, and again by three Irish tenors.

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Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON, a Jewish Book Award finalist based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave woman who helped them escape. Her six prior novels include the Langum-Prize honored The Race for Paris and The Wednesday Sisters, one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. A graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school, she has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, Runners World, and public radio, often on the subject of the particular challenges women face. megwaiteclayton.com

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