Authority Quote by Margaret Thatcher

Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free.

— James Nesbitt

We need to work together towards a mutually beneficial solution for Ireland, the U.K., and for Europe.

— Enda Kenny

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

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of…

— John Hume

From my earliest youth I have regarded the connection between Ireland and Great Britain as the curse of the Irish nation, and felt convinced,…

— Theobald of Bec

Northern Ireland must, in future, be absorbed into the Irish republic. Wales and Scotland must advance from devolution to full independent status. The four…

— Norman Davies

In Northern Ireland, people said there would never be a solution. But once people begin to have the political will and force their governments…

— Mairead Corrigan

In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share…

— Gerry Adams

As a citizen of Ireland I have more sovereignty over our government. Because citizens now have more ways of holding the Irish government to…

— Mary Robinson

The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy

— Seamus Costello

“internal disunity made Ireland vulnerable to conquest by a united Britain.”

— Thomas Sowell

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

— Charles Stewart Parnell