There's more learning than is taught in books.

The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.

What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'

There's more learning than is taught in books.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?