Die Quote by James Joyce

When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

— James Joyce

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

To be an Irish poet after that 19th century in which there was such a struggle toward the light, I think still will always…

— Eavan Boland

“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

“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark…

— Eilis Flynn

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and it is still home to me. My writing has taken me all over the world,…

— Michael Scott

“An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.”

— George Bernard Shaw

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

— George Bernard Shaw

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my…

— Michael D. Higgins

Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not…

— Nancy Spain

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the…

— John McGahern