Communication Quote by Daniel O'Connell

As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time;…

— Garry Hynes

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

— Diane Wakoski

Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it…

— Malachy McCourt

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

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were…

— Enya

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

— Jessie Buckley

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

“This may come as a surprise to generations of Irish pupils, but the Irish language wasn't invented just to infuriate people forced to learn…

— Darach Ó Séaghdha

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

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

Inherently in us as Irish people, wherever you are in the world, when you hear an Irish accent, it's like a moth to a…

— Jessie Buckley

And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity…

— James Joyce