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To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.


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To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
         



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This page presents the quote "To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.". Author of this quote is Daniel Patrick Moynihan. This quote is about irish, apocalypse, ireland,.