Brave Quote by Lady Gregory

“[on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.”

— M. Edward McNally

“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”

— Oscar Wilde

“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

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

“Irish improves a poet.”

— Sina Queyras

An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I…

— William Butler Yeats

“Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially, for poetry…

— W.B. Yeats

“Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.”

— E.M. Forster

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

“A real Irishman will give everything of himself--except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples.”

— Jim Tully Beggars Abroad

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