Irish language

Declan Kiberd, Synge and the Irish Language (Dublin Gill Macmillan, 1993), p. 167. 

At the end of Part 3 of The Aran Islands he recalls a discussion about the Irish language with an islander who had travelled the world. Interestingly, they discuss Archbishop McHale s translations of the Iliad and Thomas Moore s Irish Melodies. The islander found them most miserable productions, which might be seen to be a charitable assessment. They then fall to... 

Terry Eagleton, Heathcliff and the Great Hunger Studies in Irish Culture (London Verso 1995). If Irish can be effectively rendered into English, then it cannot be entirely self-identical but must always have been intrinsically capable of this difference in itself. And if English can translate Irish, then this alien medium must be in some sense inherent in the Irish language itself (268). 

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