Duty Quote by Kenneth Tynan

We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have…

— Susan Mitchell

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger…

— Garry Hynes

There are certainly many British plays which go down far better with Dublin audiences than they would in Belfast.

— Ian McElhinney

To make a career as an Irish actor, generally it's the case that you move to London. When you make that move, you do…

— Aidan Turner

It is in that English Parliament the chains for Ireland are forged, and any Irish patriot who goes into that forge to free Ireland…

— Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa

Most actors here go to the West Coast; I ended up going to Ireland. My buddies who left drama school, they had this arrogance…

— Brian F. O'Byrne

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

— Cyril Cusack

“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

I love the way an Irish man, they can hardly speak proper English, is doing William Shakespeare. So I find that extraordinary as I…

— Gavin Friday

Belonging to the Dramatists Guild Council where, with my fellow dramatists, I can directly affect (and protect) the professional lives of all American Playwrights…

— Peter Stone

Sadly, a lot of our traditions are fading away and theatre can be a great tool to ensure that it doesn't happen.

— Himani Shivpuri

There was that sense that as soon as a Northern Irish person opens their mouth, you go, 'Ah, terrorist,' so I refused to do…

— Richard Dormer