Complicated Quote by Gavin Friday

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

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

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

“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

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

— Diane Wakoski

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came…

— Marian Keyes

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

James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he was thinking…

— Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

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

We used to speak Irish - Gaelic Irish - around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that.

— Genevieve O'Reilly

Maybe some things that weren't so great were said about the Irish when they came. But Americans've done well by absorbing immigrants and it's…

— Tim Kaine

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