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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,…

— John Hume

To involve young people and make sure that the system is more relevant to them in Scotland, we have a clear obligation to implement…

— Charles Kennedy

I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two…

— Margaret Thatcher

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been…

— Tana French

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

Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about…

— Jane Jacobs

“Such brutishness was beyond the English capacity for tolerance. Especially when the vulgarians in question occupied such lovely lands. So, as they had for…

— David E. Stannard

“There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England. But fellow…

— Emily Hahn

In the 19th century, we didn't much like the loud annexationist voices south of the border or American support for Sinn Fein adventurers who…

— Margaret MacMillan

The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.

— Will Rogers

To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to…

— Wolfe Tone