Irish
The elite class of poets known as the filid wore a feathered cloak, the tuigen.
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Famous quotes containing the word irish:
“The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“I was the rector’s son, born to the anglican order,
Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;
The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept
With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
“The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)