Departed Quote by Gerard Brennan and Mike Stone

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

“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

“Death, is a beautiful conclusion to these short stories, that which we have so interestingly entitled, lives.”

— Kiar

“Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.”

— Rhian J. Martin

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B.…

— Hozier

“Felicia’s Journey by the Irish short-story writer and novelist William Trevor.”

— Will Schwalbe

A requiem is meant to bring comfort.

— Mack Wilberg

“What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person…

— Frank Delaney

“posit by W. B. Yeats: “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”

— Anonymous

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

— George R. R. Martin

“Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties." (Interview in Writers…

— John Irving