Dutch Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“It is one of their beauties, the Irish, the way they crush and expand the language all at once How they mangle it and…

— Colum McCann

“He said you have to be on the side of the losers, the people with bad lungs. You have to be with those who…

— Hugo Hamilton

“Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other…

— Robin Flower

“A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn’t.”

— Kate Atkinson

“It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river of the…

— Thomas Davis

“Such brutishness was beyond the English capacity for tolerance. Especially when the vulgarians in question occupied such lovely lands. So, as they had for…

— David E. Stannard

“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people”

— Jan Morris

“[on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.”

— M. Edward McNally

“The English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt.”

— Joseph O'Connor

“ I fancy that the Irish language must have 57 different words for 'rain', in the same way that Inuit has for 'snow'. If,…

— Stephen Price

“accents started to be tinged with what was, stateside, referred to as an Irish brogue. I was finally”

— Allison Parr

“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”

— Oscar Wilde