About Quote by Stephen Rea

“If it's well written, even an obscene book cannot be immoral. John McGahern, Galway, October 6th 2003. "Acclaimed as the most important Irish novellist…

— John McGahern

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing…

— Terry Eagleton

I don't think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don't think…

— Lady Gregory

I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've…

— Neil Jordan

“A real Irishman will give everything of himself--except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples.”

— Jim Tully Beggars Abroad

“The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative…

— Sara Sheridan

“posit by W. B. Yeats: “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”

— Anonymous

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

— Maeve Binchy

“It was like the violence of the world he’d grown up in had embedded itself in him, taken root, and could never be fully…

— S.E. Jakes

“The Irish were poor, but not enslaved. He had come here to hack away at the ropes that held American slavery in place. Sometimes…

— Colum McCann

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

— Henry David Thoreau