Beautiful Quote by Malachy McCourt

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never…

— Louis MacNeice

Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English…

— Daniel O'Connell

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

— Diane Wakoski

Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about…

— Jane Jacobs

And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity…

— James Joyce

As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time;…

— Garry Hynes

Language is so important to the Irish, almost regardless of education.

— Jessie Buckley

“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

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

— Fiona Shaw

“Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other…

— Robin Flower

“This may come as a surprise to generations of Irish pupils, but the Irish language wasn't invented just to infuriate people forced to learn…

— Darach Ó Séaghdha

I think I've got an Irish sensibility for language - I like how people talk. I'm not saying I've got it, but I'm obsessed…

— Roisin Conaty