"When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, the - Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore, although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe."

Source : "Roddy Doyle's Man Of Ireland At The End Of The Road". "Morning Edition" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 20, 2010.

Roddy Doyle

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