Northern Ireland Quotes

Northern Ireland Quote of the day

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the only church at that time-it was a nationalist conflict.

I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland

We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.

I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.

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

Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.

It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.

That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

We dont vote in Northern Ireland for what we want, we vote against what we dont want.

People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.

Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

The Conservative Party's always stood in every seat and I think it's important to us and I’m personally very pleased that we plan to continue to run candidates in Northern Ireland as well.

My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.

All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland

Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland

My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

Your name is Sanchez, what are you doing playing for Northern Ireland?

Northern Ireland were in white, which was quite appropriate because three inches of snow had to be cleared from the pitch before kick off

I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule.

I believe that the Union Flag should change now to reflect the four nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability.

I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987

It was amazing that I was ever elected.

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people’s thinking.

Literalness, however, is not the substance from which human culture is made.

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.