Gerry Quinn quotes from Derry Girls

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MOMan on TV

This document is an insult to the majority of people of Northern Ireland!

Gerry Quinn

All right, Ian, we get the idea, like.

What are you futtering at?

Gerry Quinn

The picture’s just gone a bit, sort of…

Gerry Quinn

Dear Jesus!

You have to give it a bit of a shock now and again. (He hits the TV again) You have to keep it on its toes.

Gerry Quinn

I’m not sure you do have to keep it on its toes, Joe. It’s a television.

Gerry Quinn

Okay, okay, okay! I’m just going to turn it off and turn it on again. That usually does the trick. (He turns the TV off and on again) There we go. Hm? It doesn’t seem to be anything happening now.

This stupid prick’s broken the TV, Mary!

For God’s sake, Gerry.

He’s been futtering.

Gerry Quinn

Excuse me. You’re the one that was thumping it repeatedly, Joe.

I’ll thump you repeatedly!

Well, the pair of you better sort it out. London’s Burning’s on in 20 minutes.

God, Mary, but them poor fellas are flat out with fires, so they are. Jesus, but they never get a minute.

Aye, it’s a good job they keep themselves in such great shape.

Aw, don’t, Mary. That Greek fella…

He could throw me over his shoulder any day of the week.

Erin

Boke-o-rama.

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When JFK came to Dublin, Uncle Colm met him, and Daddy didn’t.

Things are gonna be different this time, I tell you.

Gerry Quinn

JFK spoke to Colm? Christ, that man didn’t have much luck, did he?

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Look, Mary. Are they for Mammy’s grave, Da?

Aye.

Ten years gone, would you believe it?

I don’t know why I bother. That Kitty O’Donnell next door, sue her plot’s like a jungle.

It is a disgrace.

If that useless bloody husband of hers doesn’t get his finger out soon, I’ll give it a going-over myself.

Daddy, how many times? You can’t strim the grave of another man’s wife. It’s inappropriate.

You could rear cattle in it, Sarah.

Ten years, and not a peep out of her.

Gerry Quinn

Who?

Mammy.

Ten years, and nothing.

I don’t know what she’s playing at. There’s no excuse for it, love.

Gerry Quinn

Her being dead is sort of an excuse. No?

She couldn’t give us a sign? She couldn’t rattle a teapot or something?

Mary Quinn: Bridget Gallagher was telling me she went to see this psychic.

No! You know the problems I have with my aura.

Gerry Quinn

Your aura?

The last time I went to see a psychic, sure I was tortured. The spirits were coming at me left, right and center. This one lad, he was in the American Air Force. Well, would he give over about that plane going down? Jesus, he had me demented.

Even so, Sarah, wouldn’t you like to know that Mammy’s happy, that she’s at peace now?

I’d give anything to speak to her again.

Ach, Daddy.

Love to know what the hell she did with my good electric razor.

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