Ulster Quotes

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

— C. S. Lewis

I'm sure there was an educational angle to the trips (I think one was to the Ulster Museum) but it was the…

— Rory McIlroy

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.

— John Amery

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

— David Trimble

When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

— James Nesbitt

I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.

— Ian Paisley

Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South,…

— James Connolly

“Finally, in August 1607, the cream of Ulster’s Irish aristocracy, including Hugh O’Neill himself, left Ireland for permanent exile. Other Irish were…

— James Webb

“The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of…

— Thomas Cahill

Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It…

— Bernadette Devlin

Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right

— Lord Randolph Churchill

I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

I'm delighted that I was born in Ulster rather than anywhere else in Ireland and I've certainly not lost my identity.

— Martin O'Neill

“Philadelphia became the Ulster Scots’ most popular port of entry for two reasons. The first was that the Pennsylvania colony had been…

— James Webb

The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their…

— Tom Devine