The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'
It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
Dublin is really fun, and Irish people are hilarious.
Many of the Victorian and Edwardian activists who campaigned for Irish home rule, for instance, also wanted what they called 'home rule all round': separate parliaments not simply for Ireland but also for the Scots and the Welsh - and for the English.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
I have three older brothers. I'm Irish. I'm feisty.
There's a certain kind of guy, a certain kind of humor, that goes with Irish cops and firemen.
I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Gaelic football is a very Irish sport, which I played.
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
After my son died, I went to a psychiatrist. He proved - or I proved - that Sigmund Freud was correct when he said that the Irish are impervious to psychoanalysis.
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.
People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.
I'm from an Irish Catholic family.
There are not many Irish people playing tennis!
