Fascinating Irish Author quotations
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.
You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.
Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.
The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.
