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SAINT PATRICK’S DAY always brings plenty of attention to this little green island of ours, its history, its culture, and its proverbs…
While often well-intentioned, people abroad have a habit of attributing sayings to Ireland that are either completely made-up or actually come from other parts of the world.
In 2017, when then Taoiseach Enda Kenny was visiting Donald Trump at the White House, the US President shared an “Irish” proverb he’d heard “for many many years” that turned out not to be Irish at all.
“Always remember to forget the friends that proved untrue, but never forget to remember those that have stuck by you,” was the saying Trump said “a lot of us” know well.
“It”s a great phrase,” the president said.
So, for the week that’s in it, can you spot which of these ‘Irish’ sayings are real and which are completely made-up (by The Journal)?
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