America Quote by Ian McElhinney

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable…

— Natasha Trethewey

I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as…

— Eavan Boland

Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heaney and Frank McGuinness. I have always admired the…

— Bronagh Gallagher

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

— Eavan Boland

I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time.…

— Eavan Boland

I would quite like to do something on Ireland about the culture, James Joyce, Yeats, persuade Seamus Heaney to have a chat and do…

— Rick Stein

I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew…

— Michael Scott

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

— Anonymous

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

— Maeve Binchy

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

“Shift #5 for Seamus Heaney a box of coconut water two cans of coconut milk so many looking for help some people care when…

— Ali Liebegott

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

— William Butler Yeats