From almost prehistoric times the Irish were skilled artificers in gold and bronze, and, at the advent of Christianity, had already evolved and perfected that unique system of geometrical ornament which is known as Celtic design.

One of his anecdotes was this: 'Archbishop Whately did not like a professor named Robert Daly; he said the Irish were a very contented people, they were satisfied with one bob daily.'

Furthermore, A. de Puy Van Buren, noted as a common sight in the Yazoo district, "especially in the ditching season, wandering 'exiles of Erin,' straggling along the road"; and remarked also that the Irish were the chief element among the straining roustabouts, on the steamboats of that day.

The Irish are the highest and steadiest leapers in the world.

Dem Irish am mighty stupid kine ob creeturs; dey swallows down mos' any thing you chooses to tell 'em.

The Irish and even the Welsh were largely pro-Boers, so were some of the most English of the English.

" "The Irish are a low set.

The Irish were the fighting race now if ever.

Just so do the half-savage natives of Thibet, and the Irishwomen of Kerry, by a strange coincidence unless the ancient Irish were Buddhists, like the Himalayanstie just the same scraps of rag on the bushes round just the same holy wells, as do the Negros of Central Africa upon their "Devil's Trees;" they know not why, save that their ancestors did it, and it is a charm against ill-luck and danger.

To make the difference all the greater, the Celts are almost universally Catholics, while the Scotch-Irish are Protestants.

The Scotchman said that the Irish are a colony from Scotland, "an ootcast, a mere ootcast."

The Scotchman said that the Irish are a colony from Scotland, "an ootcast, a mere ootcast."

The Irish are undoubtedly a brave nation, but their courage is apt to vanish in presence of sickness.

The combat was joined directly the hosts met together, but the Irish were men of peace, unclad in mail, and not accustomed to battle.

Sir Richard Bonnycastle, writing in 1846, said "The Catholic Irish who have been long settled in the country are by no means the worst subjects in this transatlantic realm, as I can personally testify, having had the command of large bodies of them during the border troubles of 1837-8.