Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
The photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress
accompanying this post, showing honoree Joni Mitchell, was taken at the Kennedy
Center Honors Medallion Ceremony at the Library of Congress, Dec. 4, 2021.
Showing posts with label Irish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish. Show all posts
Monday, March 17, 2025
Quote of the Day (Joni Mitchell, on Her ‘Irish Blood’)
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Quote of the Day (Brendan Behan, on the Irish and Cynicism)
“It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather
that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.”—Irish
man of letters Brendan Behan (1923-1964) quoted in Brendan Behan, Interviews and Recollections (1982), edited by E. H. Mikhail (1982)Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Quote of the Day (Kathleen Madigan, on Irish and Other Ethnic Stand-Up Comics)
"There's not a lot of famous scientists from
Ireland. It's writers and poets and storytellers. It's the people drinking at
the bar talking. That's what we are comfortable doing anyway, but I also think
that the people who get their [butts] kicked are funnier than the people doing
the [butt]-kicking. Like all of the ethnic groups that usually wind up in
stand-up are the ones that are not doing the [butt]-kicking. It's the black
people, the Mexicans, the Jews, the Irish. There's not like a lot of hilarious
Germans. Trust me. I've been to international festivals and I'm like, notice
how we never see the Germans or the Swedes represented. It's Australians, It's
the Irish. A few Canadians that are secretly really Irish anyway."—Stand-up
comic Kathleen Madigan quoted in Virginia Rohan, “Road to Comedy Has Changed, But Kathleen Madigan Still Jokes,” The Record (Bergen County, NJ),
September 16, 2015
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