Being Irish, I always had this love of words.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.
I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.
I'm proud to be Irish.
Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.
My soul is still Irish.
When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language they had. I felt very untalented.