“Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.”

Source: Born in Fire

John Banville: claiming Kafka as an Irish writer (2011)

Source: Aurora Leigh

On his work, in an interview in The New York Herald Tribune (18 January 1932)
General sources

"Campo dei Fiori" (1943), trans. Louis Iribarne and David Brooks
Rescue (1945)
Context: Those dying here, the lonely
Forgotten by the world,
Our tongue becomes for them
The language of an ancient planet.
Until, when all is legend
And many years have passed,
On a great Campo di Fiori
Rage will kindle at a poet's word.

Part One: The Hidden People, "The Quarrlsome Piper" p. 19
The Little Country (1991)

Source: Hainish Cycle, The Telling (2000), Ch. 4, §3 (p. 91)