Civil war Quote by Midge Ure

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

— Katharine Tynan

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until…

— Oliver Cromwell

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.

— Meghan O'Rourke

The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned…

— James Nesbitt

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

— Liam Neeson

The Church controlled so much in Ireland for so long. I'm not going to get into whether or not religion per se is a…

— Roisin Murphy

“The arrival of Christianity in Ireland brought with it the painful disconnection from the earth that still resonates today. Until then, people lived in…

— Mary Reynolds

I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and we had…

— Guy Laliberte

Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in a way.…

— Neil Jordan

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with…

— James Martineau

There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants…

— David Trimble

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

— Jacob Neusner