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Brilliant Irish Toasts to Celebrate
Irish toasts are short messages of kinship, good luck, honor and good cheer to share with friends and family at a pub or family home. If you’re ever about to drink a Guinness or sip a Jameson with a friend, you should be ready with an Irish toast. Take a look at the Irish toasts we’ve gathered, and let us know of any we’ve missed. Cheers!
20 Best Irish Toasts
- I have known many, liked not a few, loved only one, I drink to you.
- May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live.
- May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends gathered below never fall out.
- May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and heaven accept you.
- May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, may good luck pursue you each morning and night.
- May the strength of three be in your journey.
- May there be a generation of children on the children of your children.
- May the Lord keep you in His hand and never close His fist too tight.
- Here’s that we may always have a clean shirt, a clean conscience, and a guinea in our pocket.
- May I see you grey and combing your children’s hair.
- Here’s to a sweetheart, a bottle, and a friend. The first beautiful, the second full, the last ever faithful.
- Here’s to temperance supper, with water in glasses tall, and coffee and tea to end with — and me not there at all!
- May you die in bed at ninety-five years, shot by a jealous husband.
- May a mouse never leave your meal bag with a tear in its eye.
- May your home always be too small to hold all your friends.
- To warm words on a cold day.
- May all the giant hearts be tall as day, may all your winter nights be warm as May.
- May the good Saint Patrick protect ye, and the devil neglect ye.
- May the devil say a prayer for you.
- May the rocks in your field turn to gold.
Drinking Words of Wisdom
May the ships at sea never be bottoms up.
Within this goblet, rich and deep, I cradle all my woes to sleep.
May you have:
A world of wished at your command
God and his angels close at hand
Friends and family their love impart,
And Irish blessing in your heart.
May your bank account always be like the capital of Ireland —
Always Dublin!
When the roaring flames of your love
have burned down to embers,
may you find that you’ve married your best friend.
May the devil cut the toes off our foes, that we may know them by their limping.
May misfortune follow you the rest of your life, but never catch up.
May you always have a cool head and a warm heart.
Funny Irish Toasts
May the Good Lord take a liking to you — but, not too soon.
May you be half an hour in heaven before the Devil knows your dead.
A bird never flew on one wing. (to encourage that second drink)
May your bank account always be bigger than your troubles.
May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend.
To all the days here and after,
May they be filled with fond memories, happiness, and laughter.
May the winds of fortune sail you,
May you sail a gentle sea.
May it always be the other guy
who says, “this drink’s on me.”
Here’s to women of the Irish shore;
I love but one, I love not more.
But since she’s not here to drink her part,
I’ll drink her share with all my heart.
May you live to be a hundred years, with one extra year to repent.
As you slide down the banisters of life may the splinters never point the wrong way.
May your troubles be as few and as far apart as my Grandmother’s teeth.
May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends gathered below never fall out.
May there be a generation of children on the children of your children.
Traditional Gaelic Toasts
May your doctor never earn a dollar out of you and may your heart never give out. May the ten toes of your feet steer you clear of all misfortune, and before you’re much older, may you hear much better toasts than this.
May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you’re going and the insight to know when you’re going too far.
May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies, quick to make friends. But rich or poor, quick or slow, may you know nothing but happiness from this day forward.
May the frost never afflict your spuds. May the outside leaves of your cabbage always be free from worms. May the crow never pick your haystack, and may your donkey always be in foal.
May the sound of happy music, And the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your heart with gladness, that stays forever after.
May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead.
Here’s to me, and here’s to you,
And here’s to love and laughter-
I’ll be true as long as you,
And not one moment after.
Here’s to you and yours, and to mine and ours.
And if mine and ours ever come across to you and yours,
I hope you and yours will do as much for mine and ours,
As mine and ours have done for you and yours!
Here’s to eyes in your heads and none in your spuds.
May the luck of the Irish
Lead to happiest heights
And the highway you travel
Be lined with green lights.
Favorites
May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and heaven accept you.
May you taste the sweetest pleasures that fortune ere bestowed,
and may all your friends remember all the favors you are owed.
May your laugh, your love and your wine be plenty,
thus your happiness will be nothing less.
May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, may good luck pursue you each morning and night.
May the luck of the Irish
Lead to happiest heights
And the highway you travel
Be lined with green lights.
May you always have a clean shirt, a clear conscience, and enough coins in your pocket to buy a pint.
Here’s to a fellow who smiles
When life runs along like a song.
And here’s to the lad who can smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
May the strength of three be in your journey.
No wasps near your honey, but bees in your hive.
Here’s to a fellow who smiles
When life runs along like a song.
And here’s to the lad who can smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship and never in want.
If you ever have an opportunity to visit Ireland, you’ll love it.
More Toasts and Irish Blesssings
May your doctor never earn a dollar out of you and may your heart never give out. May the ten toes of your feet steer you clear of all misfortune, and before you’re much older, may you hear much better toasts than this.
May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you’re going and the insight to know when you’re going too far.
May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies, quick to make friends. But rich or poor, quick or slow, may you know nothing but happiness from this day forward.
May the frost never afflict your spuds. May the outside leaves of your cabbage always be free from worms. May the crow never pick your haystack, and may your donkey always be in foal.
May the sound of happy music, And the lilt of Irish laughter, fill your heart with gladness, that stays forever after.
May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty.
Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Wherever you go and whatever you do, may the luck of the Irish be there with you.
May you live long, die happy, and rate a mansion in heaven.
Gaelic Toasts
Here’s to the women that I’ve loved and all the ones I’ve kissed.
As for regrets, I just have one; that’s all the ones I’ve missed.
Oh, womens’ faults are many, us men have only two:
Every single thing we say, and everything we do.
For each petal on the shamrock
This brings a wish your way —
Good health, good luck, and happiness
For today and every day.
Here’s to good Irish friends,
Never above you,
Never below you,
Always beside you.
Here’s to cheating, stealing, fighting, and drinking.
If you cheat, may you cheat death.
If you steal, may you steal a woman’s heart.
If you fight, may you fight for a brother.
And if you drink, may you drink with me.
Here’s to beefsteak when you’re hungry,
Whiskey when you’re dry,
All the women you’ll ever want,
And heaven when you die.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain
With grammar and nonsense and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain
Give genius a better discerning.
Beimedh a gole! (Let us be drinking!)
Here’s to the land of the shamrock so green,
Here’s to each lad and his darlin colleen,
Here’s to the ones we love dearest and most.
May God bless old Ireland, that’s this Irishman’s toast!
May the leprechauns be near you,
To spread luck along your way.
And may all the Irish angels,
Smile upon you St. Patrick’s Day.
Saint Patrick was a gentleman,
Who through strategy and stealth,
Drove all the snakes from Ireland,
Here’s a toasting to his health.
But not too many toastings
Lest you lose yourself and then
Forget the good Saint Patrick
And see all those snakes again.
Short and Sweet
Morning is the time to pity the sober; it’s the best they’ll feel all day.
Here’s to absent friends and here’s twice to absent enemies.
Dung hills rise and castles fall, we are all equal one and all.
May your troubles be less, And your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness come through your door.
Best while you have it use your breath,
There is no drinking after death.
Merry met, and merry part, I drink to thee with all my heart.
Here’s to a wet night and a dry morning.
