There is blood in Mr. Ervine's 'Carson'; he knows nothing about Sir Edward Carson, of course, but his teeth are firmly fixed in the calf of someone's….

Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have t….

Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and re….

[On writer George Moore:] ... I grew curious about Moore. Yet when at the rehearsal of 'Countess Cathleen' in some dark by-way of London, I was told ….

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore..

There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality..

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone..

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short..

We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got….

Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye..

Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come..

It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping it, whippin….