Elude Quote by Brian Friel

I kick myself that I don't speak Irish. Ah, man, I'd love to. I am going to learn.

— Barry Keoghan

Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better…

— Seamus Heaney

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

— Oscar Wilde

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be…

— John McGahern

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am…

— James Joyce

When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use it, and…

— Glenn Quinn

I think I've got an Irish sensibility for language - I like how people talk. I'm not saying I've got it, but I'm obsessed…

— Roisin Conaty

Language is so important to the Irish, almost regardless of education.

— Jessie Buckley

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

— Colin Farrell

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

— Gabriel Byrne

We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will…

— Sir John Davies

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never…

— Louis MacNeice