Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mother and I used to watch 'Maude,' and I think she loved 'Maude' because my mother wanted to see strong women out there with a voice.
Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
I used to go to a Gaelic class on a Saturday morning, but I never felt myself that I could speak it properly.
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.
Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.
Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.