Best Quote by Sally Rooney

I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.

— Philip Treacy

To be an Irish poet after that 19th century in which there was such a struggle toward the light, I think still will always…

— Eavan Boland

My Irish identity is important as it's a part of who I am.

— Dervla Kirwan

From day one working in TV, I have been very conscious of the way the Irish are represented, In every show I've been involved…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

Despite being from Ireland, I've always avoided writing about it, for two reasons. For a very small country, Ireland has produced an astonishing number…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going…

— Anne Enright

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

— Fiona Shaw

I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore…

— Anne Enright

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

— Seamus Heaney

I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with…

— Eavan Boland

Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where…

— Michael D. Higgins

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