Quiz on Irish Authors: Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and more and where to see their statues

Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels.

Bust in the Long Room, Trinity College Library, Dublin, Eire. Open to the public.

Authors of Famous Quotations

Can you recall a book or quotation by any of these authors? 

Authors, alphabetically:

Samuel Beckett

a Brendan Behan

b Maeve Binchey

c Bernard Shaw

d James Joyce

e Jonathan Swift

f Oscar Wilde

g William B Yeats

h Anna May Mangan

Can you name the author of these works?

Angela's Ashes

Borstal Boy

Gulliver's Travels

The Importance of Being Ernest

Me and mine

Ulysses

Can you identify the author of any of these quotations? (Punctuation added and grammar changed by Angela Lansbury and grammarly.com)

1 A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

2 'Anyone could write a book.' (Taxi driver.) Anyone could, but they don't. (Author.)

3 Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

4 I have nothing to declare, but my genius.

5 I wish I had said that.

6 Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

7 You will, Oscar, you will.

8 I have nothing to declare except my genius.

9 We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

10 Everyone desires to live long, but no-one would be old.

11 No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

12 Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken.

13 Don't waste today worrying because tomorrow will be even worse.

14 I am a drinker with writing problems.

15  Why should we take advice on sex from the Pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't.

16 Ever tried. Ever failed. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

17 There are no strangers here. Only friends you haven't yet met.

18 Youth is wasted on the young.

Quotations & Their Authors

1 A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Bernard Shaw

2 Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams

William Butler Yeats

3 We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde.

4 I have nothing to declare but my genius.

Oscar Wilde

5 Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

6 Anyone could write a book. Anyone could, but they don't. 

Maeve Binchey.

7 Everyone desires to live long, but no-one would be old. 

Jonathan Swift 

8 No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Oscar Wilde

9  Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

10 Don't waste today worrying because tomorrow will be even worse.

Anna May Mangan, author of memoir Me and Mine.

11 I am a drinker with writing problems.

Brendan Behan

12  I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.

Frank Mc Court, author of Angela's Ashes

13 Why should we take advice on sex from the Pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't.

George Bernard Shaw

14 Ever tried. Ever failed. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

15 There are no strangers here. Only friends you haven't yet met.

William Butler Yeats

16 Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

Useful Websites

quotemaster.org

https://www.wikihow.com/Speak-With-an-Irish-Accent

https://www.tcd.ie/library/exhibitions/directors-choice/swift/

https://www.irelandbeforeyoudie.com/9-inspirational-quotes-from-irelands-literary-greats/

https://www.irelandbeforeyoudie.com/irish-surnames-top-100-last-names-family-names-ranked/

https://www.azquotes.com/author/16044-William_Butler_Yeats

Places to see and visit

N Ireland

Statue of St Patrick

Ireland

Plaque on Shaw's birthplace in Dublin

Busts in library of Trinity College, Dublin

Statues of Brendan Behan, Oscar Wilde, and others

England

Statue of Oscar Wilde in London near Trafalgar Square

House of Shaw at Ayot St Lawrence

USA

Statue of Edmund Burke in Washington D.C.