Irish Dance/irish C%C3%A9il%C3%AD Dances

Famous quotes containing the words irish, dance and/or dances:

    “Irish Americans are about as Irish as black Americans are African.”
    —Bob Geldof (b. 1954)

    “Never since the middle summer’s spring
    Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,
    By pavèd fountain or by rushy brook,
    Or in the beachèd margent of the sea
    To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,
    But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “We have dancing ... from soon after sundown until a few minutes after nine o’clock.... Occasionally the boys who play the female partners in the dances exercise their ingenuity in dressing to look as girlish as possible. In the absence of lady duds they use leaves, and the leaf-clad beauties often look very pretty and always odd enough.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)