Acting Quote by Fionnula Flanagan

I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers,…

— Garry Hynes

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

— Patrick Pearse

We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have…

— Susan Mitchell

So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's…

— Jack Reynor

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

— Henry David Thoreau

There's still, dare I say it, a cultural propaganda against the Irish, that we are, as women, 'feisty.' I hate that word.

— Dervla Kirwan

What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

— Lady Gregory

I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what…

— Anne Enright

It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

— James Joyce

There's this very romantic vision of Ireland, but I grew up in a place where it's not very fun to grow up. This fake…

— CMAT

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is…

— Deborah Tannen

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

— George Bernard Shaw