Belfast Quote by Frank Carson

Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.

— Clive Owen

If I had stayed in Belfast, my life there wouldn't have as easy as it was in Scotland. I see the strain on the…

— Joan Lingard

When my family moved from Ireland in the 70s, Britain was such a difficult place to be Irish. It was a decade of real…

— Maggie O'Farrell

I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes…

— Liam Neeson

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

One of the biggest problems I found with Irish politics and the economic thing was after the war, after World War II, most of…

— Gavin Friday

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from…

— James Nesbitt

I mean Georgia, and also Belfast, aren't the most stable places, politically, in the world. But the thing is, in both places, the people…

— Katie Melua

I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.

— Jamie Dornan

It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them…

— Bernadette Devlin

For people looking in, it might have seemed like the Troubles was the focal point of Derry life but, from stories I've heard, it…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

When I was growing up, Belfast City Hall was surrounded by security, and we had no access to it. But now, people come in…

— James Nesbitt