Art Quote by Stephen J. Joyce

“When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was home”

— William Saroyan

“Irish heroes, for one reason or another, have come off, it must be owned, but poorly before the bar of history.”

— Emily Lawless

“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark…

— Eilis Flynn

“But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulysses" on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic,…

— John Munro Woolsey

“Will I die without ever reading Ulysses to the end?”

— David Mitchell

“What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person…

— Frank Delaney

“This happened to your father and to you, Galway-sick to stay, longing to come up against the ends of the earth, and climb over.”

— Galway Kinnell

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

“[on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.”

— M. Edward McNally

“A man with an Irish accent could sound wise and poetic and interesting even when he wasn’t.”

— Kate Atkinson

James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.

— Edward Abbey

James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our…

— John Guare