Accepted Quote by Dick Spring

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

— Martin McGuinness

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom,…

— John Hume

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out.…

— John Hume

“. . . I still hold two truths with equal and fundamental certainty. One: the British did terrible things to the Irish. Two: the…

— John Dominic Crossan

“The 'Irish Question' has dogged English politics for four hundred years and will continue to measure out its irresolution in blood and human lives…

— Kevin Toolis

It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my Government will be a 'soft touch' in the Community. In…

— Margaret Thatcher

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring…

— Michael D. Higgins

I suspect that the only thing that will take Articles Two and Three out of the Irish Constitution is when the bombs begin to…

— Norman Tebbit

British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting…

— W. C. Sellar

Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".

— Eddie Mair

The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

— Jack Charlton

The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland

— James Connolly