Paddy Larkin was a famous Irish sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club James Stephens and with the Kilkenny senior inter-county team from 1931 until 1943.
Famous quotes containing the words paddy and/or larkin:
“O Paddy dear, an’ did ye hear the news that’s goin’ round?
The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground!
No more Saint Patrick’s Day we’ll keep, his colour can’t be seen,
For there’s a cruel law agin the wearin’ o’ the Green!”
—Unknown. The Wearing of the Green (l. 37–40)
“It never worked for me.
Something to do with violence
A long way back, and wrong rewards,
And arrogant eternity.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)