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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

— William Butler Yeats

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

— Anonymous

“There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.”

— Rhian J. Martin

“Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.”

— Rhian J. Martin

“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark…

— Eilis Flynn

I hate Yeats! A lot of his poems are not very good, but some are obviously okay. But how has he become this sort…

— Sally Rooney

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history…

— James D'arcy

“It was like the violence of the world he’d grown up in had embedded itself in him, taken root, and could never be fully…

— S.E. Jakes

“I was beginning to understand how the Irish mentality worked. The more foolish, illogical or surreal one's actions were perceived t be (and mine…

— Tony Hawks

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

— Frank McCourt

“Irish improves a poet.”

— Sina Queyras

We made 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' about the war of independence and the civil war, which were the pivotal moments of Irish…

— Ken Loach