And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.

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.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.