While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely an...d fatally?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet dearer still that Irish hill than all the world beside; It's home, sweet home, where'er I roam, through lands and waters ...wide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," a...nd can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, the shame and the degradation wrought upon the people of Ireland--yea, wrought by Irishmen upon Irish men and women, without burning to end it, is, in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on the ...simple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge... Through living roots awaken in my head. But I've no spade to follow men like them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish th...e over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Dubliner" seems to me to have some meaning and I doubt whether the same can be said for such words as "Londoner" and "Parisian" b...oth of which have been used by writers as titles. From time to time I see in publishers' lists announcements of books on Irish subjects, so that I think people might be willing to pay for the special odour of corruption which, I hope, floats over my stories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content to... recognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »