Irish Quote by Darach Ó Séaghdha

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

— Jessie Buckley

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

Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English…

— Daniel O'Connell

“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

There was so much anti-Irish sentiment not just from other kids at the school I went to in Britain, but also the teachers themselves.…

— Maggie O'Farrell

“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

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Diane Wakoski

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything…

— Douglas Hyde

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

Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about…

— Jane Jacobs

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb,…

— Bernadette Devlin