Divided Quote by Terry Eagleton

Irish writing is so strong that it can feel like the country has all been covered, but in fact, there are so many gaps.…

— Kevin Barry

My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something…

— Christopher Meloni

“To me, Gothic fiction is the literary representation of the stormy gloom of the British Isles.”

— Stewart Stafford

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

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic…

— Fiona Shaw

The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a…

— Kevin Starr

I connect to the tradition of Irish storytelling. And I think there is something - I can't put my finger on it - something…

— Michael Connelly

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

I think most Irish people are creative. Whether it's music, or dance, or... certainly storytelling is in the blood.

— Genevieve O'Reilly

“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

I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what…

— Anne Enright

It's true of Irish Catholic families. They're big on story telling and big on saving stories from one generation to the next.

— J. Courtney Sullivan