The literary activity of even the eighteenth century among the Gaels was very great.

Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity.

Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since.

Englishmen have very noble and excellent qualities which I should like to see imitated here, but I should not like to imitate them in everything. I like our own habits and character better, they are more consonant to my nature; I like our own turn of thought, our own characteristics, and above all I like our own language.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.