Northern Ireland Quotes
76 Northern Ireland quotes by 47 unique authors
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone…
— Kate Adie
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The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.
— Hillary Clinton
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That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.
— Trevor Brooking
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Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here.
— John Motson
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We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were raised in the…
— Larry Mullen, Jr.
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We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.
— Ian Paisley
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I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule.
— Ian Paisley
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I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
— John Hume
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The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that…
— John Hume
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There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace.
— David Trimble
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Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in…
— Mahathir Mohamad
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The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human…
— Unknown Author
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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,…
— Seamus Heaney
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Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on…
— Paul Muldoon
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I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987
— Paul Muldoon
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On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good…
— Paul Muldoon
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There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
— James Callaghan
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After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the…
— Robert Fisk
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I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland
— Gerry Adams
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For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the…
— James T. Walsh
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People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.
— Frank Carson
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I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the…
— Peter Hain
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My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings…
— Peter Hain
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The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back…
— Peter Hain
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Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled;…
— Rod Liddle
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