Irish Quote by M. Edward McNally Download Open image ““[on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.”” — M. Edward McNally ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Irish Irish Race Poetry Poets Poets Wordsmiths Race Poets Wordsmiths Ass
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Well, they may not be civilized, but they are certainly confident--and this confidence is one of the open-handed pleasures of early Irish literature.” — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
“It is one of their beauties, the Irish, the way they crush and expand the language all at once How they mangle it and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn’t.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
“Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people” — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose that, but… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“Ireland is probably named the “Emerald Isle” because there are lots of precious stones found there, such as sapphires and rubies.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“A horn honks.I look up, expecting to see the white Audi. But there’s a sleek black four-door with shiny silver rims instead. e driver… — K A Tucker Copy Share Image
“Why would she do that?" "Because she's a Yankee - a Maine Yankee, the worst kind. On a given day, they can make the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. — John Oates Copy Share Image
I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing,… — Fionnula Flanagan Copy Share Image
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