Liam Carney Quotes

Uncle Pa Keating Jesus, I said to meself, I have so much gas in my system, tis a great pity to waste it. So I shove a pipe up my arse, light a match to it... ...and there I have a fine flame ready to boil water in any billy can. The English come from trenches... to pay me any amount of money to boil their water.

Aunt Aggie That's no story to be telling in the presence of a dead child.

Grandma Sheehan Tis better than sitting with a long face.

Uncle Pa Keating I made so much money in the trenches that I was able to bribe the generals, who didn't normally give a fiddler's fart about the Irish, to let me out of the army, and off I went to ], where I had a fine time drinking wine... with the models and artists and talkin the lingo.

Aunt Aggie You think that's funny, do you?

Uncle Pa Keating I had a great time over there.