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John McGahern Quotes

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
John McGahern

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Type:
Writer Quotes
Category:
Irish Writer Quotes
Date of Birth:
November 12, 1934
Date of Death:
March 30, 2006
Nationality:
Irish
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