I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.
I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.
Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.
I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.
There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?
I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
I don't really go around feeling very Irish at all. I don't go to Irish pubs. I've lived so many places, and I'm still so curious about the bigger world. It's grand to be alive in a time when mobility is so accessible.
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.