Believe Quote by George A. Moore

When I read James Joyce, I'm not really interested in the Dublin of 1904. I'm interested in being in the presence of a voice…

— Joseph O'Neill

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

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

— James Joyce

“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

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

When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

— James Joyce

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

Irish writing is so strong that it can feel like the country has all been covered, but in fact, there are so many gaps.…

— Kevin Barry

I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It's a challenge to the powers that be. It's saying there is a real…

— Alan Lightman

“Chance and Destiny have between them woven two-thirds of all history, and of the history of Ireland wellnigh the whole. The literature of a…

— William Butler Yeats

“Another brave new world beckoned, but Dublin was dubious – too often hope had been trampled down by foreign armies or strangled in dark…

— Peter Murphy

The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason.…

— Eavan Boland