Books Quote by Rebecca Solnit

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

“Such brutishness was beyond the English capacity for tolerance. Especially when the vulgarians in question occupied such lovely lands. So, as they had for…

— David E. Stannard

“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

Irish writing is so strong that it can feel like the country has all been covered, but in fact, there are so many gaps.…

— Kevin Barry

“There was a certain untamed energy about the west of Ireland – full of tragedy and struggle, sown with the flesh of the departed.”

— Rhian J. Martin

“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

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic…

— Douglas Hyde

Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not…

— Nancy Spain

I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what…

— Anne Enright

“Chance and Destiny have between them woven two-thirds of all history, and of the history of Ireland wellnigh the whole. The literature of a…

— William Butler Yeats

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

“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