Gerry Conlon: When can I go back to Belfast? Detective: Next time you'll see Belfast, they'll be flying day trips to the moon. Gerry Conlon: I always wanted to be an astronaut.
In life, we all have a cross to bear and a unique story to tell. We just hope that someone will take the time to listen.
When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines.
I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!
Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.
I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.
The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it was terribly religiously divided.
Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.
I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.
I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.
Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.
When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.
The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state.
People fell in love with Alex Higgins, a working-class fellow from the back streets of Belfast. That's what brought the game alive.
I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
The really big challenge is delivering the social justice agenda in the Belfast Agreement, which hasn't been delivered.
When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
I grew up in leafy suburbs in north and east Belfast, but if I had been born a mile down the road closer to the city centre, you might never heard of me.
He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.
We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community div...
My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've...
