Europe Quote by Malcolm Chapman

“John MacKechnie’s Gaelic Without Groans”

— Gladys Mitchell

“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative…

— Sara Sheridan

“Perhaps the most significant intellectual trend of the eighteenth century was that towards what we now label 'Romanticism'. Within this often rather monstrous historical…

— Malcolm Chapman

“I'faith, 'tis an Occasion of no small Satisfaction to commence this Enquiry into the Romances & Fiction of the English --& their antick Neighbors,…

— Steven Moore

“The folk of a Celtic type, whether pre-Celtic, Celtic, or Norse, have all spoken a Celtic language and exhibit the same old Celtic characteristics—vanity,…

— J.A. Macculloch

“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

“And so he began haltingly to speak—in Gaelic, as it was the only tongue that didn’t seem to require any effort. He understood that…

— Diana Gabaldon

There was engrained poetry and then when you look back at our history and in the 20th century, the last century, probably the greatest…

— Gavin Friday

“The outrage which greeted the announcement that the Scottish Arts Council had awarded me a Writer's Bursary to complete this book scrutinising the MacCrimmon…

— Alistair Campsie

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

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

— M. Edward McNally

“The point of this book is that being Scottish is more than just a matter of nationality or place of origin or clan or…

— Arthur Herman