Irish Catholic Quotes

“In the era of security clearances, to be an Irish Catholic became prima facie evidence of loyalty. Harvard men were to be checked; Fordham men would do the checking.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“I caddied—more accurately, I drove the golf cart—for Father O’Leary and his friends throughout most of the summer of that year. I was a good caddie because I saw nothing when they passed the bottle of whiskey and turned a deaf ear to yet another colorful reinvention of the words “motherless son of a bitch from hell” when the golf ball betrayed them.”
― John William Tuohy, No Time to Say Goodbye: A Memoir of a Life in Foster Care

“My Irish Catholic upbringing taught me a prayer to express profound amazement with God’s complex creation. I whispered it. “Holy fucking shit.”
― David Boyne