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Northern Quotes by Seamus Heaney
- The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless,…
- My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland,…
- In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
- A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
- Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a…
- I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won…
More Northern Quotes
- I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot… — Margaret Atwood
- Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children. — Carol Bellamy
- On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we… — Kate Adie
- I'm definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working - if I ever stop working. I like the idea of… — Anthony Bourdain
- The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December. — Paul Cellucci
- The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability. — Hillary Clinton
- You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is.… — George Clooney
- 'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the… — Sam Abell
- Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble. — William Lloyd Garrison
- The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined.… — Winston Churchill
- The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson
- America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black… — Malcolm X