Arguing Quote by Bernadette Devlin

We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century

— John Bruton

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

— William Allingham

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 people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

— George Best

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

— John Hume

The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like…

— Alec Reid

“What Ireland shares with many societies around the world is a dangerous reality: once a group of people is isolated as being in some…

— Mary Raftery

Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.

— Clive Owen

Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in a way.…

— Neil Jordan

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

— James Nesbitt

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

— Seamus Heaney

“I seriously believe that you will retard the course of civilisation in Ireland by preventing the Irish people from having one good look at…

— James Joyce