Kenneth Branagh Quotes

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish.

I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but also in many instances, the Irish writers are writing about people and circumstances that I can relate to.

Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.

I think there is a very strong sense of Irish identity, and I think partly that's to do with the fact that we have evolved differently from Britain and other countries in Europe.

Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

My soul is still Irish.

Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile.

I love words.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.

My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.

I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.