Famous quotes containing the words irish catholics, irish and/or catholics:
“Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ...”
—Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)
“Irish Americans are about as Irish as black Americans are African.”
—Bob Geldof (b. 1954)
“When over Catholics the ocean rolls,
They must wait several weeks before a mass
Takes off one peck of purgatorial coals,
Because, till people know what’s come to pass,
They won’t lay out their money on the dead—
It costs three francs for every mass that’s said.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)