Cultural differences Quote by Robin Flower

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

“Irish has not so much a common formula as a common character.”

— Lew Bryson

“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

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

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

— Diane Wakoski

“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.”

— Thomas Adcock

“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

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

“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

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

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as…

— Anne McCaffrey

The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

— Katharine Tynan