Being Quote by Patrick Kavanagh

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were…

— Enya

We used to speak Irish - Gaelic Irish - around the dinner table, but over the years, we lost that.

— Genevieve O'Reilly

The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get…

— Lady Gregory

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the…

— John McGahern

My first language is Gaelic.

— Enya

“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

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

“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

Irish is a leprechaun language.

— Sammy Wilson

“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

Our language was even taken from us. The Irish Gaelic language was outlawed and the religion was outlawed. Hence the religion later being stronger;…

— Gavin Friday

I used to go to a Gaelic class on a Saturday morning, but I never felt myself that I could speak it properly.

— Johann Lamont