Bad Quote by Lady Gregory

I served 18 months in Northern Ireland and that was very scary. I remember when we were told do you want the good news…

— Nigel Benn

The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

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

Army food: the spoils of war

— War Army

Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know?

— James Nesbitt

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

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…

— Robert Fisk

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

“Half the country wouldn’t have died if the landlords hadn’t kept shipping away the corn, seizing cattle, rack-renting, evicting, torching cabins…Or if the government…

— Emma Donoghue

My wife, who hated every place she'd been to in her life, absolutely loved it in Scotland.

— Martin O'Neill

In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British…

— Sean Lemass