John McGahern Quotes About Ireland

Quotes about: Ireland

• Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

  John McGahern

  Rain, Sky, Identity

• Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

  John McGahern

  Ireland And The Irish, Peculiar, Century

  "The whole world in a community". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

• Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

  John McGahern

  Beautiful, Mean, People

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