Character Quote by Marianne Moore

I connect to the tradition of Irish storytelling. And I think there is something - I can't put my finger on it - something…

— Michael Connelly

It's true of Irish Catholic families. They're big on story telling and big on saving stories from one generation to the next.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence…

— Anonymous

My grandmother was not a great storyteller.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic…

— Fiona Shaw

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

— Anne Enright

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look…

— Anonymous

“My grandparents on both sides were probably horse-thieves. No one ever told us anything about them. Therefore I suspect the worst. I imagine they…

— Victoria Wilson

Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family…

— John McGahern

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

“there’s no damsel with a tragic history in there? With a name like the Three Craftsmen, they each should build something awesome for a…

— Kevin Hearne

Beware an Irishman who loves his wife the most but his mother the longest.

— Anonymous