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I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.

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.

Ireland, once you live there, you're seduced by it.

Moral training in Ireland is severe and lasts until marriage. Even in childhood, we are taught by the pious clergy to battle against bad thoughts so that we may preserve our holy purity.

The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?

Sometimes, there's not an honest engagement of Ireland in Hollywood movies.

In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.

Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts the population of the country.

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.