Abuse Quote by Declan Kiberd

In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.

— Patrick Kavanagh

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing…

— Terry Eagleton

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many…

— Paul Muldoon

“Dark, was banned by the Irish state censor for obscenity. The story was set, as so much of McGahern's later fiction would be, in…

— John McGahern

“If it's well written, even an obscene book cannot be immoral. John McGahern, Galway, October 6th 2003. "Acclaimed as the most important Irish novellist…

— John McGahern

There was engrained poetry and then when you look back at our history and in the 20th century, the last century, probably the greatest…

— Gavin Friday

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

— William Allingham

“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

Despite being from Ireland, I've always avoided writing about it, for two reasons. For a very small country, Ireland has produced an astonishing number…

— Maggie O'Farrell

The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned…THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.

— Ken Bruen

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening…

— Paul Muldoon

“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.”

— Joe Queenan