Ulster Quote by James Webb

I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

“Until they became the British Empire’s greatest voyagers, indeed its greatest export, settling in odd places all around the world. And for that splinter…

— James Webb

“Philadelphia became the Ulster Scots’ most popular port of entry for two reasons. The first was that the Pennsylvania colony had been created with…

— James Webb

“Finally, in August 1607, the cream of Ulster’s Irish aristocracy, including Hugh O’Neill himself, left Ireland for permanent exile. Other Irish were to follow…

— James Webb

“As one observer noted, “In traveling across America, the Scots-Irish have consistently blown my mind as far and away the most persistent and unchanging…

— J.D. Vance

“Most of the first voluntary Irish immigrants came from Ulster in the north of Ireland. These immigrants were generally, although not exclusively, Protestants. They…

— Ryan Hackney

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't…

— John Shelton Reed

My father was a San Francisco firefighter. He also was an amateur artist. Art ran deep on his side of the family, which originated…

— Keith Hernandez

For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because…

— Ishmael Reed

The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the…

— Anonymous

I'm sure there was an educational angle to the trips (I think one was to the Ulster Museum) but it was the fun and…

— Rory McIlroy

I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.

— Ian Paisley

Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set…

— James Connolly

“The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of…

— Thomas Cahill

When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

— James Nesbitt