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And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. (“How to Write with Style”. Essay, 1985)


Kurt Vonnegut


#style #writer #writers-quotes #writing #music

God and religion before every thing!' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.' Mr Casey raised his clenched fist and brought it down on the table with a crash. 'Very well then,' he shouted hoarsely, 'if it comes to that, no God for Ireland!' 'John! John!' cried Mr Dedalus, seizing his guest by the coat sleeve. Dante stared across the table, her cheeks shaking. Mr Casey struggled up from his chair and bent across the table towards her, scraping the air from before his eyes with one hand as though he were tearing aside a cobweb. 'No God for Ireland!' he cried, 'We have had too much God in Ireland. Away with God!


James Joyce


#ireland #religion

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.


Iris Murdoch


#ireland #irish #women #feminism

The Irish people didn't get on that well with each other either. They hated the Catholics, was the main issue, as I see. You can't blame them for that. If I understand correctly, Catholics do not believe in contraception. So, you know, sex is not relaxing.


Jaclyn Moriarty


#contraception #history-of-ireland #sex #catholicism

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.


Daniel Patrick Moynihan


#ireland #irish #apocalypse

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening. And it is the English, specifically, who are the targets of this. Few Americans have heard of Wales. All of them have heard of Ireland and many of them think they are Irish. Scotland gets a sort of free pass, especially since Braveheart re-established the Scots' anti-English credentials among the ignorant millions who get their history off the TV.


Peter Hitchens


#americans #anti-british-sentiment #braveheart #britons #eavesdropping

Go back to bed, Cowan. I want no promises from you.


Sandi Layne


#ireland #norway #slaves #vikings #historical-fiction

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!


Bernadette Devlin


#american #christ #each #hate #holy

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


Fiona Shaw


#ireland #love #story #upbringing #would

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.


Dominic West


#ireland #mum #parents #were






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