Quote by Stephen Price

I kick myself that I don't speak Irish. Ah, man, I'd love to. I am going to learn.

— Barry Keoghan

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

“The same unquestioning certainty given to English rain and Irish trouble.”

— Laura Lee Guhrke

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

— Kenneth Branagh

“1 Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral May you have no frost on your spuds, No worms on your cabbage. May your goat give plenty of milk. If you…

— Janice Thompson

“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

I think I've got an Irish sensibility for language - I like how people talk. I'm not saying I've got it, but I'm obsessed…

— Roisin Conaty

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it…

— Alan Parker

Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never…

— Louis MacNeice

Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it…

— Malachy McCourt

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

— Winston Churchill

Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better…

— Seamus Heaney