Conflict Quote by Adrian Dunbar

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

— James Webb

“Differences between Catholic and Protestant countries did not incite rivalries between European states, or cause the growing sense of national identity and, sometimes, isolationism…

— Fiona MacDonald

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church…

— Harri Holkeri

“These people, these neighbors, both Protestant and Catholic alike, who spat at each other with such hatred that it sometimes erupted into violence, did…

— Anna Lee Huber

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and…

— Thomas Pynchon

I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine.…

— Colm Toibin

The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it was terribly religiously divided.

— Frank Carson

“Townspeople themselves were eager for change and experiment. From their point of view, Catholicism was tied in with customs and festivals that made sense…

— Michael Mullett

“Our nation was settled and populated by Christians who could not abide persecution. Shipload after shipload of our Christian ancestors, for decade after decade,…

— John Price

I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it…

— John McGahern

“At the time, most Europeans believed that religious conformity was necessary to safeguard civil order, and they questioned how such a diverse colony could…

— David S. Kidder

“I do not know, to my shame, any spot in my native land where I should have been so warmly received by the same…

— Robert Louis Stevenson