Bird Quote by Lady Gregory

It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called…

— Lady Gregory

I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and…

— Werner Herzog

Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of…

— Thomas Cahill

“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

People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless…

— Frank McCourt

“He saw the black water and the declining sun and the swan dipping down, its white wings flashing, and slowing and slowing till silver…

— Jamie O'Neill

Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.

— Joseph Jacobs

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

— Anonymous

It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of…

— Lady Gregory

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening…

— Paul Muldoon

I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history…

— James D'arcy

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

— William Butler Yeats