“There was nobody in the city I came from - Cork, Ireland - that I coul...” — Rory Gallagher Quote

“There was nobody in the city I came from - Cork, Ireland - that I could link up with to teach me the guitar.”

“I started on acoustic guitar after I heard Leadbelly and Big Bill Broonzy.”

“I've had too many opportunities to sell out.”

“'Ordinary Grace' freed me. I don't have to write only Cork O'Connor novels now. I'm liberated. I can write whatever I want to write.”

“The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.”

“My grandfather was a travelling tinker in Cork.”